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"Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction."

Joshua Foer on Science

More quotes about Science

  • "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

    Albert Einstein on Science

  • "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

  • "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

  • "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong."

    Albert Einstein on Science

  • "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

    Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science

More quotes by Joshua Foer

  • "One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens."

  • "When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory."

  • "No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today."

  • "No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today."

  • "Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all."

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