Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
There, among Hubert Humphrey, Vladimir Nabokov, Marianne Moore, Robert Graves, Senator George McGovern, William Safire, Isaac Asimov, Timothy Leary, Muhammad Ali, Bob Hope, Truman Capote, Ayn Rand, W. H. Auden, Marshall McLuhan, Justice William O. Douglas, Ed Koch, Gwendolyn Brooks,
John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Ever since Newton and Descartes, science has explicitly offered us the vision of total control. Science has claimed the power to eventually control everything, through its understanding of natural laws.
Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel
(Druyan told me this was because Sagan’s number-one rule for writing an alien was never to show them, never to collapse the possibilities of imagination into anything you could clearly see.)
Jaime Green • The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
Ptolemy’s Almagest and Copernicus’s De revolutionibus are two of the finest scientific works ever written.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
Holden Karnofsky • All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild
