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When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.


Robert Moog


#allows #any #does #down #human

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.


Richard Powers


#book #considered #form #head #hearing

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.


Robert Kennedy


#arena #bodies #clearly #commit #enough

The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity; and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.


Jim Sensenbrenner


#also #amount #atmosphere #caused #clear

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.


David Suzuki


#activity #altering #carbon #cycle #earth

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.


Aldous Huxley


#any #ever #human #human activity #importance

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.


Ron Silver


#activity #area #because #before #chinese

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.


E. O. Wilson


#calling #cease #come #effort #environmentalist

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.


Barry Commoner


#activity #agriculture #answer #ask #change

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.


Thomas Huxley


#art #believe #counsellors #every #human






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