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“When we meet via video call from his home in California, Damasio recalls one eminent scientist telling him that feelings were ‘for girls’ and that he should stick to the ‘big stuff’ like intellect if he wanted to understand the mysteries of the mind.9 He ignored them and, working with his wife and long-term collaborator Hanna Damasio, has spent more than thirty years compiling evidence that the body is very much required for emotion and feelings.”
― Inner Sense: How the New Science of Interoception Can Transform Your Health
― Inner Sense: How the New Science of Interoception Can Transform Your Health
“What modern science has taught us is that life is not a property of matter.
Physicists and chemists see very intimately what the rest of us who think life exists cannot: there is no magic transition point where a molecule or collection of molecules is suddenly "living."
Life is the vaporware of chemistry: a property so obvious in our day-to-day experience—that we are living—is nonexistent when you look at our parts.”
― Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
Physicists and chemists see very intimately what the rest of us who think life exists cannot: there is no magic transition point where a molecule or collection of molecules is suddenly "living."
Life is the vaporware of chemistry: a property so obvious in our day-to-day experience—that we are living—is nonexistent when you look at our parts.”
― Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
“God, the Maker of heaven and earth, introduced himself to the people of Israel with a special personal name, the consonants for which are YHWH (see Exodus 3:14–15). Scholars call this the “Tetragrammaton,” a Greek term referring to the four Hebrew letters YHWH. The exact pronunciation of YHWH is uncertain, because the Jewish people considered the personal name of God to be so holy that it should never be spoken aloud.”
― The Holy Bible, English Standard Version
― The Holy Bible, English Standard Version
“Normally, we imagine the universe began as a dot, roughly as in Figure 8.10, in which there is no exterior space or time. Then, from some kind of eruption, space and time unfurled from their compressed form and the expanding universe took flight. But if the universe is spatially infinite, there was already an infinite spatial expanse at the moment of the big bang. At this initial moment, the energy density soared and an incomparably large temperature was reached, but these extreme conditions existed everywhere, not just at one single point. In this setting, the big bang did not take place at one point; instead, the big bang eruption took place everywhere on the infinite expanse.”
― The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
― The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
“An object flung upwards from the surface of the Earth must have a speed in excess of 11 kilometres per second to escape into deep space. This is known as Earth’s escape velocity. The gravitational pull at the Sun’s surface is much stronger, and the escape velocity is correspondingly higher at 620 kilometres per second. At the surface of a neutron star, the escape velocity can approach an appreciable fraction of the speed of light.‡ Laplace calculated that a body with a density comparable to the Earth but with a diameter 250 times larger than the Sun would have a gravitational pull so great that the escape velocity would exceed the speed of light, and therefore ‘the largest bodies in the Universe may thus be invisible by reason of their magnitude’.3”
― Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
― Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
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