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“Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship between the ocean and an iceberg floating on its surface? Both the ocean and the iceberg are made of the same material. That the iceberg seems separate is only because it is in a different form. In reality, it is but a part of the vast ocean.…”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that we’re smart. And that there’s stuff that TV and movies—although they’re great at certain things—cannot give us.”
― Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
― Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
“By the time I began my study of physics in the early 1970s, the idea of unifying gravity with the other forces was as dead as the idea of continuous matter. It was a lesson in the foolishness of once great thinkers. Ernst Mach didn’t believe in atoms, James Clerk Maxwell believed in the aether, and Albert Einstein searched for a unified-field theory. Life is tough.”
― The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next – How Theoretical Physics Lost Its Way and the Search for the Next Big Idea
― The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next – How Theoretical Physics Lost Its Way and the Search for the Next Big Idea
“The status of celebrity offers the promise of being showered with ‘all good things’ that capitalism has to offer. The grotesque display of celebrity lives (and deaths) is the contemporary form of the cult of personality; those ‘famous for being famous’ hold out the spectacular promise of the complete erosion of a autonomously lived life in return for an apotheosis as an image.
- From Martin Jenkins' Introduction”
― The Society of the Spectacle
- From Martin Jenkins' Introduction”
― The Society of the Spectacle
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