"Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design."
-Herbert Simon
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"I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world."
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"Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment."
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"Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational."
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"Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves."
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"There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes."
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"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
-Bertrand Russell
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"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
-Will Durant
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
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"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
-Charles Darwin
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
-Jacob Bronowski
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"Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science."
-Robert Green Ingersoll
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