"There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style."

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Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

David Gelernter

#Book Quotes #Style Quotes #Lectures Quotes

“The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.”
“My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.”
“One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.”
“I'm a tomboy. I love shooting guns and running around.”
“There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who 'fail' at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompetent, incapable even of getting their dying quite right.”
“In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn.”
“The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.”

Source : Leland Ryken (2005). “The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts”, p.222, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.”

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