"The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it."

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"The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it."

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"A witty saying proves nothing."

Voltaire, French Writer

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

Robert Benchley, American Comedian

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"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist

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"Nothing from nothing leaves nothing."

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"One finds limits by pushing them."

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"The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it."

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"There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes."

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"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."

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"One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it."

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"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves."

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"Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature."

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"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."

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"Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational."

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