Apr
16
“Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.”
Lil B
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Mar
31
“Given this definition— “poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended”—I have lived my whole life ironically.”
Hearty White
Mar
29
“Take, say, physics, which restricts itself to extremely simple questions. If a molecule becomes too complex, they hand it over to the chemists. If it becomes too complex for them, they hand it to biologists. And if the system is too complex for them, they hand it to psychologists … and so on until it ends up in the hands of historians or novelists. As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.”
Noam Chomsky
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2012/03/noam_chomsky_on_linguistics_and_climate_change_.html?fb_ref=sm_fb_like_chunky&fb_source=home_multiline
Dec
8
“It’s like, if I had been born 10 years later, I could have saved thousands of dollars and a ton of time.”
Andrew Burgess, on collecting records before the creation of Spotify.
Nov
15
Preservation
- lambo91: What are your thoughts on cryogenic preservation and the idea of medically treating aging?
- neiltyson: A marvelous way to just convince people to give you money. Offer to freeze them for later. I'd have more confidence if we had previously managed to pull this off with other mammals. Until then I see it as a waste of money. I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.
- Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/
Learning
- bearsfan043: What is the simplest thing in your life that makes you happy?
- neiltyson: Watching a person learn something new - not simply a new fact (those are cheap and easy) -- but achieve a new understanding for how the world works. That's the only reward a (true) educator ever seeks.
- Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/
Relativity
- bluengreen7: What are your thoughts on the reports of neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light?
- neiltyson: Three options:
- 1) Mistake in the data
- VERY DISTANT 2) New particle traveling backwards through time. No need to modify relativity.
- EVEN MORE DISTANT 3) Need to modify Relativity.
- Roastmasters: Upvote for implying that time travel is more possible than the infactuality of relativity.
- Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/
Nov
9
“But we presumably are adults, with a special responsibility for interacting with all humans on this planet.”
Carl Sagan
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/03/if-membership-is-restricted-to-men-loss.html
Nov
7
“‘Nothing is more rare in any man,’ says Emerson, ‘than an act of his own.’ It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their life a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (the Emerson quote is from a lecture entitled “The Preacher”)
Nov
1
“And then I said, “Let there be party,” and there was party, and it was hard.”
Andrew WK
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