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“So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; that the perfection…
“If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” –Anonymous …
“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that…
“No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.” — Niels Bohr In quantum physics, the ‘observer effect’ refers…
Emotions can hijack our minds. They prepare us for action, and they neighbour our perception. But they also reveal what matters to us most.…
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod…
“A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts…
The 24/7 news cycle serves up novelty each and every minute, filling our minds with information that would otherwise be inaccessible for us. Here’s…
“[The] selective concern with the ‘inner drama’ enables the writer or artist to capture the essential feature of human experience; it allows him to…
“I do think that people literally get addicted to cell phones and social media, yes. It’s important to recognise that addiction is a spectrum…
“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world…
“It is rare to see a professional economist, in interpreting the past or forecasting the future, quoting what a businessperson or newspaper writer thinks…
