"Rather Than Resorting To Foxes And Hedgehogs (a Fox Knows Many Things, But A Hedgehog Knows One Big
"Rather than resorting to foxes and hedgehogs (a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing), I tend to think about modern scientists as either the drillers of ever-deeper holes (now the dominant route to fame) or scanners of wide horizons (now a much diminished group). I have always preferred to scan as far and as wide as my limited capabilities have allowed me to do so." ― Vaclav Smil, author of How the World Really Works.
Artwork by Jennifer Davis.
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I've wasted the greater part of my life looking for money. It's about 2% movie-making and 98% hustling.
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“The middle of the road is a good place to get run over.” - Anonymous
“Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity. The principle of maximum diversity says that the laws of nature, and the initial conditions at the beginning of time, are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible.” - Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician, Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/science/freeman-dyson-institute-for-advanced-study.html
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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