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The development of a science of heat and motion (thermodynamics) grew out of the need to understand what was going on in steam engines, and to use that knowledge to improve the efficiency of the engines. But the advancing understanding of
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“It is always easier to remember a difficult concept in one of its tangible manifestations than in its essence.”
― The Mystery Of Capital
― The Mystery Of Capital
“Brains of higher complexity can remember more. A brain doesn’t store memories like files in a computer—it reconstructs them on demand with electricity and swirling chemicals. We call this process remembering but it’s really assembling.”
― Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
― Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
“There was neither non-existence nor existence then; there was neither the realm of space nor the sky which is beyond. What stirred? Where? —THE RIG VEDA”
― Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
― Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
“In short, your brain’s most important job is not thinking. It’s running a little worm body that has become very, very complicated.”
― Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
― Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
“Only a brief study of history is necessary to show that Greek philosophers were undesirable citizens, who throughout the period of their investigations were victims of relentless persecution, at the hands of the Athenian government. Anaxagoras was imprisoned and exiled; Socrates was executed; Plato was sold into slavery and Aristotle was indicted and exiled; while the earliest of them all, Pythagoras, was expelled from Croton in Italy. Can we imagine the Greeks making such an about turn, as to claim the very teachings which they had at first persecuted and openly rejected?”
― By George G. M. James: Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
― By George G. M. James: Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
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