coalesce

❐ Highlights ❐ Notes Highlights Civilization cannot exist without spoken language, but it can without written communication.

❐ Highlights ❐ Notes Highlights [...] this is a book about the similarities; and once these are understood the differences will be found to be much less great than is popularly (and politically) supposed. [...] that myth is the secret opening through which

❐ Highlights ❐ Notes Highlights A great discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem.

Ignore the horribly cliché title, I've really had a delicious cup of coffee today.

❐ Highlights ❐ Notes Highlights "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,‐that is genius." - Emerson The soul and its cultivation were the primary preoccupations of the Transcendentalists…

❐ Highlights Highlights [To the question of "If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"]

There is a gulf between authentic imperfection and sterile perfection.

Last week, I listened to a podcast series called A History of the Infinite, which started off with a quote by David Hilbert that says "no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite."

❐ Highlights ❐ Notes Highlights [The machines] there is no reason why they may not resemble human beings in representing pockets of decreasing entropy in a framework in which the large entropy tends to increase. [...]

❐ Highlights Highlights [...] when an object is reduced downwards to its physical subcomponents—for example, when a table is considered as a collection of atoms and subatomic particles—it is being undermined.