Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full or try….

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself..

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible..

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person.

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind..

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one….

History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looki….

Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. An….

We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you can think of languages of the tech….

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check..

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit..

And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see it….

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists wh….

What we need is equality without conformity..

Rock is much more malleable than ideas..

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possibl….

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Strugg….

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived..

I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the wo….

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodie….

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange..