"You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach."

-- Ramez Naam

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“As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.”
“Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.”
“Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.”
“Ive only dressed in drag three or four times.”
“The best thing we can do for a young person is to expect a great deal from them.”
“When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.”
“The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak about it in any other way would be to misunderstand it. What has disappeared is the risk and the hope of human connectedness embedded in eros. Ours is a language that reduces the longing for an other to the need for individual, private satisfaction and safety.”
“The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world, even if he has to speak of numbers, vectors, tensors, state-functions, or whatever to make the abstraction.”

Source : Hilary Putnam (1979). “Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Mathematics, Matter and Method”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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