#greatsanddunes — Public Fediverse posts
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Every exit is an entry somewhere.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
-- Immanuel Kant -
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
-- John Burroughs -
The utility of a network increases as the square of the number of connected nodes.
-- Metcalf's Law -
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- G. K. Chesterton -
The past will often try to attack the present with the pain of your memories.
-- Kirima Seiichi -
In the history of history a myth is a once valid but now discarded version of the human story, as our now valid versions will in due course be relegated to the category of discarded myths.
-- Carl Becker -
Prosthetic Knowledge, n. Information that a person does not know, but can access as needed using technology
-- prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #prostheticknowledgetumblrcom #Knowledge #Technology
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Too much [central] control freezes the system into limited configurations; too little causes it to wander aimlessly. Only systems that hover on the border between order and chaos exhibit the needed general stability and capacity to explore the universe of possible solutions to challenges.
-- Stuart A. Kauffman (Sciam (Nov 2006))⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #StuartAKauffman #Economics #Evolution #Technology
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The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication... the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by the question "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question "Where shall we have lunch?"
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FyodorDostoevsky #Intelligence #Suffering
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The earnest admission of not-knowing is the furled flower that rests in the heart of all true science, art, and empathy.
-- Pat Rothfuss⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PatRothfuss #Empathy #Science #Uncertainty
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In attempting to arrive at the truth, I have applied everywhere for information, but in scarcely an instance have I been able to obtain hospital records fit for any purposes of comparison. If they could be obtained . . . they would show subscribers how their money was being spent, what amount of good was really being done with it.
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I define legacy system as any system that's been up long enough to work.
-- Clement McDonald -
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- G. K. Chesterton -
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I have what passes for an education, but I am not deceived by it.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
You aren't a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.
-- John Wooten -
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
-- Buddha -
Instead of viewing their mission as teaching WHAT to read and HOW to think, universities in America today view their mission as teaching students HOW to read and WHAT to think.
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Sands can be amazingly beautiful. This is Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado.
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
-- Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #CoryDoctorow #Enshitification #Systems #Technology
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
-- Walt Whitman -
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
-- Confucius -
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
-- Swedish Proverb -
Discover Great Sand Dunes National Park in this lively animated explainer! Join Ali, Sulaiman & Adrijan as they sketch geology, ecology, and must-see spots - perfect for curious travelers and nature lovers. #GreatSandDunes #NationalParks #Geology #Nature #Travel #Education #Animation #English
https://peertube.mdg-hamburg.de/videos/watch/165a5d87-ff97-4552-bf0a-40900f9718b4 -
Sometimes reading supplies the most cunning of all means of avoiding thought.
-- Joseph Epstein -
The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.
-- W. E. B. Du Bois -
We travel to interesting places. Last winter, we spent a few weeks camping out at the #ufo watchtower in #hooper #colorado.
It's an awesome place, with incredible dark skies near the #greatsanddunes national park.
Many people have noted extraordinary experiences on lookout at the UFO Watchtower. They also have the remains of a potentially abducted horse on site.
#thetruthisoutthere #milkyway #milkywaychasers #darkskies #astrophotography #ufowatchtower #roadsideattraction #natgeo #roadtrip