Reads tagged with “science”
Cosmic Solitude: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on How the Prospect of Being Alone in the Universe Can Make Us Better Stewards of Our Humanity
“Perhaps we wouldn’t talk so much nonsense, tell so many lies, if we knew that they were echoing throughout the cosmos…”
Something Deeply Hidden Behind Things: Einstein on Wonderment and the Nature of the Human Mind
How a simple compass oriented one of humanity’s greatest minds toward the truth of things.
Genius at Play: A Brilliant Mathematician on Tinkering, Thinkering, and the Art of Being a Professional Nonunderstander
Anatomy of thought at the fault line of invention and discovery.
Marilynne Robinson on the Humanities, the Limits of Neuroscience, and the Usefulness of the Soul as a Sensemaking Mechanism for Reality
“A great deal depends, perhaps our humanity depends, on our sensing and acknowledging that quality in our kind we call the soul.”
Henry Beston on Whimsicality, the Limits of Knowledge, and What Science Is and Isn’t
“A world without wonder, and a way of mind without wonder, becomes a world without imagination, and without imagination man is a poor and stunted creature.”
Galileo on Why We Read and How Books Give Us Superhuman Powers
“What sublimity of mind was his who dreamed of finding means to communicate his deepest thoughts to any other person, though distant by mighty intervals of place and time!”
The Lost Mariner: A Beautiful Animated Short Film About Memory, Inspired by Oliver Sacks
“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives.”
The 15 Best Books of 2015
Rewarding reflections on time, love, loss, courage, creativity, and other transformations of the heart.
The Soul of an Octopus: How One of Earth’s Most Alien Creatures Illuminates the Wonders of Consciousness
“While stroking an octopus, it is easy to fall into reverie. To share such a moment of deep tranquility with another being, especially one as different from us as the octopus, is a humbling privilege… an uplink to universal consciousness.”
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