Quote:- The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective. The ordinary detective goes to pot-houses to arrest thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists. The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed. We have to trace the origin of those dreadful thoughts that drive men on at last to intellectual fanaticism and intellectual crime. We were only just in time to prevent the assassination at Hartlepool, and that was entirely due to the fact that our Mr. Wilks (a smart young fellow) thoroughly understood a triolet.
Author:- G. K Chesterton
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.{Cuvier on Joseph Banks}
Author:- Georges Cuvier
Category:- science
Quote:- The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.
Author:- Matshona Dhliwayo
Category:- Life
Quote:- The world around us will continue to turn, and our surrounding environment will forever play a role in influencing our lives.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- motivational,time,hope
Quote:- the world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places
Author:- Ernest Hemingway
Category:- Life
Quote:- The world consists of five letters, established in seven days, and will end in less than a second.
The Herok
Author:- Isaac Nash
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
The Curse of Chalion
Author:- Lois McMaster Bujold
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The world does not offer us the luxury to dictate if or when troubling times arrive.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
Author:- Richard Rorty
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.
Author:- Oscar Wilde
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The world has been changing even faster as people, devices and information are increasingly connected to each other. Computational power is growing and quantum computing is quickly being realised. This will revolutionise artificial intelligence with exponentially faster speeds. It will advance encryption. Quantum computers will change everything, even human biology. There is already one technique to edit DNA precisely, called CRISPR. The basis of this genome-editing technology is a bacterial defence system. It can accurately target and edit stretches of genetic code. The best intention of genetic manipulation is that modifying genes would allow scientists to treat genetic causes of disease by correcting gene mutations. There are, however, less noble possibilities for manipulating DNA. How far we can go with genetic engineering will become an increasingly urgent question. We can’t see the possibilities of curing motor neurone diseases—like my ALS—without also glimpsing its dangers.Intelligence is characterised as the ability to adapt to change. Human intelligence is the result of generations of natural selection of those with the ability to adapt to changed circumstances. We must not fear change. We need to make it work to our advantage.We all have a role to play in making sure that we, and the next generation, have not just the opportunity but the determination to engage fully with the study of science at an early level, so that we can go on to fulfil our potential and create a better world for the whole human race. We need to take learning beyond a theoretical discussion of how AI should be and to make sure we plan for how it can be. We all have the potential to push the boundaries of what is accepted, or expected, and to think big. We stand on the threshold of a brave new world. It is an exciting, if precarious, place to be, and we are the pioneers.When we invented fire, we messed up repeatedly, then invented the fire extinguisher. With more powerful technologies such as nuclear weapons, synthetic biology and strong artificial intelligence, we should instead plan ahead and aim to get things right the first time, because it may be the only chance we will get. Our future is a race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we use it. Let’s make sure that wisdom wins.
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Author:- Stephen Hawking
Category:- science
Quote:- The world has millions of records on people who badly wounded and hurt their friends, people who didn't value the intrinsic value of man, don't come and add up to this. Be a true friend others could count on.
Author:- John Arthur
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.
The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918
Author:- Randolph Bourne
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The world is a beautiful place, full of opportunity. We cannot be contained or destroyed. We can unreservedly and wholeheartedly be wherever we wish to be. There is an embracing of one’s proper place and destiny, whatever that may be. Our devotion to all that is good, and all that is good for us, becomes unshakeable. The soul’s path is secure and assured. We can walk with profound peace and confidence in our hearts.
The Love of Devotion
Author:- Donna Goddard
Category:- hope
Quote:- The world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don't mind happinessnot always beingso very much funif you don't mind a touch of hellnow and thenjust when everything is finebecause even in heaventhey don't singall the timeThe world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don't mind some people dyingall the timeor maybe only starvingsome of the timewhich isn't half badif it isn't youOh the world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don't much minda few dead mindsin the higher placesor a bomb or twonow and thenin your upturned facesor such other improprietiesas our Name Brand societyis prey towith its men of distinctionand its men of extinctionand its priestsand other patrolmenand its various segregationsand congressional investigationsand other constipationsthat our fool fleshis heir toYes the world is the best place of allfor a lot of such things asmaking the fun sceneand making the love sceneand making the sad sceneand singing low songs and having inspirationsand walking aroundlooking at everythingand smelling flowersand goosing statuesand even thinkingand kissing people andmaking babies and wearing pantsand waving hats anddancingand going swimming in riverson picnicsin the middle of the summerand just generally'living it up'Yesbut then right in the middle of itcomes the smilingmortician
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
Author:- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The world is a cruel place, filled with terrors that would frighten a madman and cold to make frostbite seem inviting, but no matter the obstacle or terror that I face, I KNOW that YOU ARE THERE! And that simple fact makes it possible for me to battle monsters!
Author:- Allison Church
Category:- Love
Quote:- The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.
Author:- Joseph Boyden THREE DAY ROAD p 45
Category:- knowledge