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Contrary to the naive view, information isn’t the raw material of truth, and human information networks aren’t geared only to discover the truth. But contrary to the populist view, information isn’t just a weapon, either. Rather, to survive and flourish, every human information network needs to do two things simultaneously: discover truth and creat

Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.”

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

One finds the same sorts of substances, organized in the same sorts of ways, spread uniformly over the visible universe, in vast abundance.

Frank Wilczek • Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Avis Lang

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“What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up.” – Yuval Noah Harari

**Note:** AI as religion - something beyond humans’ comprehension that we’re putting faith in“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” This statement makes intuitive sense, but, more importantly, we can point to a concrete example in support of it: the microscopic roundworm C. elegans. ... See more

newyorker.com • Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter

"As Steven Weinberg famously summarized modern cosmology, “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”" (Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche)

Science, as Carl Sagan put it, is “a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”

Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

Our understanding of the world is built up of innumerable layers. Each layer is worth exploring, as long as we do not forget that it is one of many. Knowing all there is to be known about one layer — a most unlikely event — would not teach us much about the rest. The integration of the enormous number of bits of information and the resulting vision... See more

The Marginalian • Pioneering Biochemist Erwin Chargaff on the Poetics of Curiosity, the Crucial Difference Between Understanding and Explanation, and What Makes a Scientist