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• Cease not to think of the Universe as one living Being, possessed of a single Substance and a single Soul; and how all things trace back to its single sentience; and how it does all things by a single impulse; and how all existing things are joint…

  Marcus Aurelius

• We don’t need more nuclear energy. We need LESS energy production. We need LESS wasted energy. (Think universal mass transit, energy efficient non-air conditioned buildings, smaller more efficient appliances, less shipping of products around…

  Mary Oliver

• No pandemic is deadlier than stupidity.

  Brett Stephens

• What’s the purpose of life? It’s smelling your coffee in the morning. Loving your kids. Having sex and daisies and springtime. It’s all the good things in life. That’s what it is.

  Laurie Santos

• As the old man aged He stayed engaged He still burned to learn Why bother he was asked Surprised Why ask he replied I haven't died Haven't you noticed Everything changes There's always something new to learn each day That's why my…

  Unknown

• Kinship is everything in our world, and you cannot act, speak or even exist without being situated in a relationship in any given context.

  Tyson Yunkaporta

• Alone Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don’t believe I’m wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone. Alone,…

  Maya Angelou

• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  Edsger Dijkstra

• In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true… The totalitarian mass leaders based…

  Hannah Arendt

• Ideas want to be shared. Sharing is baked into their nature. They don’t want to be owned, since ownership diminishes their usefulness. In the end, ideas will move in the direction of maximum sharing regardless of what the law says. And over time…

  Kevin Kelley

• Two conflicting tendencies can be seen throughout the biological world: individuality and collective behavior. Natural selection operates on differences among individuals, rewarding those who perform better. Nonetheless, even within this milieu,…

  Simon A. Levin

• We are not suffering from a lack of knowledge and experience. Human beings have known how to manage forests for millennia. Native Americans did it. Pre-historic Britons did it. Fire was one of the tools in their kit to keep forests healthy. What…

  NYTimes letter to the editor

• All things are in transitory existence.

  Unknown author, Eastern thought

• The era of setting things on firecoal, gas, oil, woodto produce power must end. Instead, we’ll have to rely almost entirely on the large flame that burns 93 million miles away. The outcome is entirely a question of pacehow fast can we go, and how…

  Bill McKibben

• The exercise of treating machine intelligence as real requires people to reduce their mooring to reality.

  Jaron Lanier

• Being wrong is a normal and inevitable part of the scientific process. We scientists do our best with the tools we have, until new tools extend our senses and let us probe more deeply, broadly, or precisely. Over time, new discoveries lead us to…

  Lisa Feldman Barrett

• Facts are surprisingly delible things.

  Bill Bryson

• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  Marcus Aurelius

• You can only manage what you can measure.

  Gavin McCormick

• The story in which you believe shapes the society that you create.

  Yuval Noah Harari