Successful scientists have often been people with wide interests. Their originality may have derived from their diverse knowledge … Originality often consists in linking up ideas whose connection was not previously suspected.
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Therefore reading ought not to be confined to the problem under investigation nor even to one’s own field of science, nor, indeed, to science alone.
(Source: brainpickings.org)
“Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.” — Bertrand Russell
(Source: brainpickings.org)
“It is the ability to spot the potential in the product of connecting things that don’t ordinarily go together that marks out the person who is truly creative.” —
(Source: brainpickings.org)
“A quality of great art is its ability to guide attention from one of its parts to another in a manner that pleases, informs, and provokes.” —
(Source: brainpickings.org)
“Is freedom the opposite of anything? Or if freedom has an opposite, then is it freedom?”
Scinerds: The Bizarre Object We Believed Was Impossible to Visualize. -
Mathematicians have now visualized abstract mathematical objects called flat tori — items resembling donuts with corrugated, fractal surfaces. These were thought to be impossible to envision in ordinary 3-D space… until now.
To imagine a flat torus, imagine a video game with a wraparound…
(Source: io9.com)
In a wine shop near Chelsea Market, NYC
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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” — Mark Twain (via mythrils)
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Kubrick on life (….maybe a clue to what 2001 was about?)
Stanley Kubrick on life.
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