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J. Doyne Farmer is American physicist and entrepreneur (b.1952). Explore interesting quotes on evening.

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“Even though something like Danny Hillis' "connection machine" is big, it's nothing compared with Avogadro's number of processors that nature has at her disposal.”

J. Doyne Farmer

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)

Nature

“In a world of superintelligent humans, the account of a quest to prove a theorem may take on a universality in its drama that seems inconceivable to us now. I believe that rational adventure is fundamental to the human spirit, and that it won't go away. But it will evolve of necessity to take place in the increasingly abstract domains that characterize the boundaries and frontiers of an evolving and ever more complex and abstract world. As a result, it will evolve into forms that are difficult for us to even think about at this point in time.”

J. Doyne Farmer

"The evolution of adventure in literature and life or Will there ever be a good adventure novel about an astronaut?"

World , Thinking , Universe , Time

“One of the factors that caused Spencer's ideas to lose popularity was social Darwinism… Social evolution is different from biological evolution: it's faster, it's Lamarckian, and it makes even heavier use of altruism and cooperation than biological evolution does. None of this was well understood at the time.”

J. Doyne Farmer

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)

Idea , Time

“The basic principle of an autocatalytic network is that even though nothing can make itself, everything in the pot has at least one reaction that makes it, involving only other things in the pot. It's a symbiotic system in which everything cooperates to make the metabolism work—the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”

J. Doyne Farmer

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)

Parting