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Structures of parabolas from which bleed equations." — Dec 03, 2023 02:29AM
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Structures of parabolas from which bleed equations." — Dec 03, 2023 02:29AM
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"The late physicist and complexity pioneer Murray Gell-Mann rightly called formal models “prostheses for the imagination." — Oct 25, 2023 02:20AM
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“Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.”
― The Portrait of a Lady
― The Portrait of a Lady
“Whatever life you lead you must put your soul in it--to make any sort of success in it; and from the moment you do that it ceases to be romance, I assure you: it becomes grim reality! And you can't always please yourself; you must sometimes please other people. That, I admit, you're very ready to do; but there's another thing that's still more important--you must often displease others. You must always be ready for that--you must never shrink from it. That doesn't suit you at all--you're too fond of admiration, you like to be thought well of. You think we can escape disagreeable duties by taking romantic views--that's your great illusion, my dear. But we can't. You must be prepared on many occasions in life to please no one at all--not even yourself.”
― The Portrait of a Lady
― The Portrait of a Lady
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
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In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
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“There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.”
― The Portrait of a Lady
― The Portrait of a Lady
“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”
― Life of Galileo
― Life of Galileo
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