Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 7, May The Best One Win, p. 144.
Contexte: In the struggle for life, or in the struggle for power, there is no reason why their victory would make the world better than it was. There is no invisible hand guiding these processes, dealing out victory to the most deserving.
Chance is their leader.
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Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 1, Keeping The Beat, p. 6.
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 8, The End of Nature, p. 162.
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 4, From Computation To Geometry, p. 84.
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 3, The Least Action Principle, p. 48.
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 2, The Birth of Modern Science, p. 39.
“The moment when the scientists became engineers was a historical turning point.”
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 8, The End of Nature, p. 152.
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 6, Pandora's Box, p. 127.
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 8, The End of Nature, p. 164.
“The measurement of time was the first example of a scientific discovery changing the technology.”
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 8, The End of Nature, p. 150.
“The world is full, at every scale, and every scale ignores the higher and lower ones.”
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 2, The Birth of Modern Science, p. 34.
“The transition from integrable to non integrable systems is quiet interesting to observe.”
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 4, From Computation To Geometry, p. 100.
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 6, Pandora's Box, p. 122.
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 7, May The Best One Win, p. 141.
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 9, The Common Good, p. 167.
Introduction, p. 1.
The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006)
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 10, A Personal Conclusion, p. 188.
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 7, May The Best One Win, p. 138.
