In terms of biological activity, a lawn is the least productive of our plantings, yet it is the default landscaping practice in most spaces.
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Quote:- In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...
Author:- Bill Gates
Category:- science
Quote:- In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds.
Author:- Carl Sagan
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- In that moment Jahan understood that life was the sum of the choices one did not make; the paths yearned for but not taken.
The Architect's Apprentice
Author:- Elif Shafak
Category:- Life
Quote:- In the 4th century BC, Plato argued that we are able to see because light emitted from the eye and that this light seizes objects with it's rays. This was the "extramission" theory of vision, and as bizarrely as it seems to us today, until the 1500s this was the widely held view in Europe of how the eye worked. To his credit Aristotle (384-322BC) was one of the first to reject the extramission theory of vision, arguing in favour of the "intromission" theory, whereby the eye receives light rays rather than projecting light into the world. Sadly, this eminently sensible theory from the ancient world was not embraced. Even Leonardo da Vinci in the 1480s first supported the extramission theory, but after dissecting the eye in the 1490s, he switched to the intromission theory. early observations by Islamic physicians, notably Hasan Ibn al-Haytham, who lived from 965 to 1040 AD and is known in the West as Alhazen, documented that the pupil dilates and contracts in response to different levels of light and that the eye is damaged by strong light. He used these observations to argue correctly that light enters the eye and that light is not emitted from the eye.
Life Time: The New Science of the Body Clock, and How It Can Revolutionize Your Sleep and Health
Author:- Russell Foster
Category:- science
Quote:- In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.
Lines & Lenses
Author:- Alex Morritt
Category:- inspiration,best
Quote:- In the absence of a lover,I was satisfied to make love to my own melancholy
As Muses Burn
Author:- Mira Hadlow
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Author:- Michael J. Behe
Category:- science
Quote:- In the Adaptive Markets framework, complexity means we don't have a good narrative for the system. The solution is obvious: we need to get smarter. Complexity can sometimes be reduced by developing a deeper understanding of the underlying structure of the system. For example, now that we understand the potential for liquidity spirals in statarb portfolios, thanks to August 2007, we can better prepare for them.But the Adaptive Markets framework points to a second problem with complexity, which is the potential divisiveness of special knowledge and the potential for conflict. If the financial system becomes so complex that only a small number of elites truly understand its function and proper maintenance, this knowledge divides the population into those who know and those who don't. Of course, this situation arises with any piece of unique information - I know how to make scallion pancakes in a particular way so they're crispy on the outside but soft and chewy on the inside, and you probably don't. But that piece of knowledge is hardly worth keeping a secret, and the fact that you don't have that knowledge isn't going to get you too upset.But suppose I know how to cure diabetes and you don't. Or I know how to prevent cancer by avoiding certain common foods and you don't. Or I know how to price mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps and you don't. In these cases, the knowledge I possess confers a certain power and status to me. Complexity creates the need for better narratives and those who have those narratives will become the high priests of complex systems, the gatekeepers of critical, life-altering knowledge. And the difficulty in joining the priesthood - earning an MD/Ph.D. in molecular biology and having twenty year of work experience at biotech and pharmaceutical companies, in the case of curing diabetes - coupled with the societal values of the special knowledge will determine the divisiveness of this elitism.
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
Author:- Andrew W. Lo
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- in the afterglowof an evening raini lay downin the grass and think of youmy body acheslike an after-kissbreaking in soft firesand wildflowersmy dear, i will always bethis tender for you.
A Thousand Flamingos
Author:- Sanober Khan
Category:- poetry
Quote:- In the age of speed, there’s something to be found in slowing down.
Author:- Kristen Butler
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- In the age of technology and abundant resources, it's more important for youth to understand the value of resources and believe what impact they can bring to their life.
Author:- Ankit Samrat
Category:- Life
Quote:- In the air the birds are clever, acrobatic, but when they land on the road they turn to lumps of coal, then lift together when a person or vehicle draws near. She watches the flight eddies, the trading of partners, the way the patterns form, dissolve and reconfigure like one machine in motion-yet each bird with its own small, muscled heart...at the same time that she carries a knowledge that she's been seeing these birds year after year (and always here) and that the medium they pass through is not just space but also time.
The End of the Point
Author:- Elizabeth Graver
Category:- time
Quote:- In the ancient and medieval world, the exploration of physical influences among heavenly bodies, and between the heavenly bodies and objects on earth, was generally called ‘astrology.’ But we must not confuse this with the current socially acceptable form of bigotry that seems to entitle the human beings who believe in it to prejudge the character of others based solely on their dates of birth.
The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
Author:- Robert P. Crease
Category:- science
Quote:- In the ancient world the higher forms of knowledge were supra-individual: the sacred books of the Hindus, for example, have no author, are not expected to have had an author, and this fact is not considered to present any problems for the Hindu mind. In the West, this simply would not do—we must know the author, and it must be demonstrably proven that authorship is correctly attributed. There is no better illustration than this of the difference between an individualist, rationalist approach to knowledge and one that is supra-individual and supra-rational one. The East has retained the latter, while the West has settled inflexibly into the former.
The Case Against the Modern World: A Crash Course in Traditionalist Thought
Author:- Daniel Schwindt
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- In the arms of souls you will know the truth of love, the energetic awareness of nostalgia. 2. Without feeling pain and numbness, there is no more painful feeling than numbness. Like a ghostly undead, not feeling the taste of life, but to know its sweet meaning. 3. Alone you are a particle of eternity, you hear the whisper of awareness - this is the whisper of reality. 4. Neurobiology Philosophy, culture, science, and psychology are often unrelated to neuroscience. Therefore, many theories are fantasy. Through neurobiology, you can learn the anatomy and chemistry of an evolving philosophy. Since thinking is a synthesis of neuro-chemical processes of the instincts of egoism at a subconscious level. 5. Hot Kazakh woman You are my hot attraction, I do not control myself at all. I want to cling to you with my love like a leech. Looking at you, I believe in love again. Without you, only depression of emptiness. 6. Optimism is the enamel of trust. 7. Fear is caffeine. 8. Truth under anesthesia, hypnotic serum of truth, under a layer of surrealism of self-deception. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
Author:- Musin Almat Zhumabekovich.
Category:- best
Quote:- In the back of my head I knew that life didn’t work that way, in phases of good and bad, and that good and bad usually occurred at the same time.
A Most Important Year
Author:- J. Aleong
Category:- Life
Quote:- In the bar, the jukebox comes on. Molley must be trying to drown out the sounds of raised voices. I move toward her, unable to resist; her eyes are wet, her face flushed, and I can finally look at her, want her, let myself touch her without grief turning everything to ashes in my mouth.
This Shattered World
Author:- Amie Kaufman
Category:- best
Quote:- IN THE BATTLE BETWEEN HEARTS, THE LOVE GET SQUASHED
Author:- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
Category:- Love