Quote by Herbert Simon
Most of us really arent horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us

Most of us really arent horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. – Herbert Simon

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One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. – Herbert Simon

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Science
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There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If were bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if were good people we use it for good purposes. – Herbert Simon

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Technology
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. – Herbert Simon

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Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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Nature

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. – Buddha

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Nature

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. – Galileo Galilei

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Nature

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Im very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. Weve got to be careful and make sure we dont foul our own nest. – John Lithgow

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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. – Jules Romains, Men of Good Will

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