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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Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all. – Joshua Foer

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Experience
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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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The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether well rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually. – Joshua Foer

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Future
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. – Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

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Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. – Stephen Hawking

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Science

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. – Charles Pierce

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Science

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck, A Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1949

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Science

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My favorite show is Americas Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause Im laughing my head off! – Corbin Bleu

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For all of higher civilizations recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. – Dennis Prager

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Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. – Werner Herzog

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