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"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."
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"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."
"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data."
"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."
"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
"Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already."
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"It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems."
"There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong."
"It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future."
"But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?"
"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."
"A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms."
"Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family."
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