Quote by Joshua Foer
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire i

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction. – Joshua Foer

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No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today. – Joshua Foer

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communication
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Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your minds eye. Thats an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition. – Joshua Foer

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Imagination
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One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when were idling in front of our computer screens. – Joshua Foer

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The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. – Edward Teller

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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. – Wernher von Braun

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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. – J. G. Ballard

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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. – Isaac Newton

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