#natur

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#commence #commences #ends #experience #investigate

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#because #devise #direct #does #her

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#also #became #equilibrium #even #large

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#just #nature #really #worry

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#i #like #natural #onstage #out

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important. ↗

— Earl Warren

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