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"You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
    -- Aristotle Plato
"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
    -- Mark Twain
"If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, if 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I would say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks."
    -- Luigi Mangione
"I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would have had access to."
    -- Luigi Mangione

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"What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life."
    -- Albert Einstein
"You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed."
    -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Everybody will be sequenced in the not-too-distant future. With genomic information providing context, standards of heath care will shift and accelerate, and people will be able to monitor their wellness in real time."
    -- Susan Tousi


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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.Get Image

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.Get Image

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern WorldGet Image

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.Get Image

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.Get Image




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