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The mind has not merely made a discovery of external fact; it has altered its own nature. It has become capable of rising above the present and the particular to the conception of law, of growth, of progress.
— Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1925)

1d ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is bent on inventing us.

1w ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is in the process of reinventing us.

3w ago

The one thing we ask is that the man who is not thinking should get out of the way of the man who is. The world wants to move forward, and if you're not moving with it, you're holding it back.

2mo ago

notboring.co

Weekly Dose of Optimism #183

If the people in that room succeed, America's next 250 years will be better than its first 250.

2mo ago

3quarksdaily.com

The path of industrialization in China — and America

Through them, the documentary poses quiet, hard questions about what industrialization means, what progress costs, and how China — as a manufacturing power — shapes the experience of modernization in African nations.

2mo ago

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is not to arrive at immutable truths but to develop progressively better approximations of reality.

2mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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