“It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so complex. Well, I think we found its secret. It's just sampling what's out there in the computational universe.”

— Stephen Wolfram

"Computing a Theory of Everything" (2010)

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British-American computer scientist, mathematician, physici… 1959

Norman Maclean book Young Men and Fire

Young Men and Fire (1992)

“"Life is like a sewer — what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.”

Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician

Introduction to "We Will All Go Together When We Go"
An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer (1959)

“Is it so big a mystery
what god and man and world are?
No! but nobody knows how to solve it
so the mystery hangs on.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

As translated by Jerome Rothenberg
Venetian Epigrams (1790)

“By facing mortality, it seems to inform how you live. So, the secret is that facing death has a lot to do with living well…”

BJ Miller (1971) palliative caregiver

On providing palliative care in “Brief But Spectacular: BJ Miller—Palliative Care Specialist” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/brief/194874/bj-miller in PBS

“We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Harvey, Galileo, Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.”

Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector

Shakespeare: The Tempest (p. 132)
Classics Revisited (1968)

“You are not what you seem.
So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Treason (1988)

“What we need is courage and determination in facing up to seemingly insurmountable odds. What we have to do is not so difficult on the face of it, if we just look at the direct ecological measures that we need to take. What makes it seem like an insurmountable problem is the monstrosity of global capitalist society.”

John Bellamy Foster (1953) Sociology professor and Marxist writer

Interview with Left Voice (2017)

“If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong. In the case of the Solar System it was intuitively obvious that the Earth was at the center of the Solar System and things moved around us, but that just turned out to be wrong. … And it intuitively seems correct that the brain is just some sort of computer—it just seems natural. … But it has undermined almost all of our work to build intelligent machines and understand thinking. It's just wrong … the brain isn't like a computer at all.”

Jeff Hawkins (1957) American entrepreneur and neuroscientist; founder of Palm Computing

Morning Edition interview http://www.rni.org/hawkins/Jeff_Hawkins_On_Intelligence.mp3

“Neuroscience has contributed so much in just a few decades to how we think about human nature and how we know ourselves.”

Jonah Lehrer (1981) American science writer

Chimeras of Experience: A Conversation with Jonah Lehrer (2009)

“It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so complex. Well, I think we found its secret. It's just sampling what's out there in the computational universe.”

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