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«We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.»
— Carl Sagan (via scinerds)
(Source: brainyquote.com, via scinerds)
«In this vocabulary, ‘structure’ is the highest abstraction, as it involves a whole, taken as-a-whole, made up of interrelated parts, the relations of which can be defined in still simpler terms of order. ‘Knowing’, in its broadest as well as in its narrow human sense, is conditioned by structure, and so consists of structural knowings. All empirical structures involve relations, and the last depend on multi-dimensional order. A language of order, therefore, is the simplest form of language, yet in structure it is similar to the structure of the world and ourselves. Such a language is bound to be useful for adaptation and, therefore, sanity; it results in the understanding of the structural, relational, multi-dimensional order in the environment on all levels.»
— Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American philosopher, scientist, engineer, mathematician, linguist, logician, author of Science & Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics, and is remembered most for developing the theory of general semantics (1879-1950)
(Source: mymindtank, via contemplatingmadness)
![“When I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.” - Neil DeGrasse Tyson [x]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6af22sLxe1r2li7ho1_500.gif)
“When I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.” - Neil DeGrasse Tyson [x]
(Source: youtube.com, via calebwilburn-deactivated2012070)
«The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.»
— Jacob Bronowski
