“...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.” WaySeemsSchoolTeachResearchAccountsUniversityOfferingIncapableFragmentsInstituteUnifiedDisconnectedInstitutes Book:Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History Source: Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
“An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.” MomentsPurposeTurnsAccountsGoldenSparesEarnestFragments Author:William Ellery Channing
“When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.” IdeasReasonNightMemoriesCreativeCrimeSceneAccountsAwakeFragmentsUnreliableFragmentationEyewitnesses Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.” KnowsMayScienceKnowledgeImpossibleOrdinaryAccountsPursuitInsignificantFragments Book:Collected essays Source: Collected essays
“The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart; and if anyone persists in doing so, he gets for his trouble only imperfect and confused fragments. Yet they do not arrive all together, but they hold each other by the hand so that they follow one another in a natural order which it is dangerous to change, because they refuse to enter in any other way where they are called.” IfsWayHandsTogetherScienceSufferingOrderNaturalImpossibleTroubleDangerousAccountsRefuseConfusedImperfectPartnershipPersistTornConfusingFragmentsNatural OrderTorn Apart Author:Marin Mersenne
“I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived by the ancient Greeks, thrived under Isaac Newton, suffered under Albert Einstein... That fragment of a 'creed for materialism' which a friend in college had once shown him rose through Donald's confused mind.” MindBelieveLawScienceI BelieveCausesEffectsCollegeSonLogicAccountsRoseAncientI Believe InGreekConfusedMaterialismCreedsFragmentsSequenceNewtonCause And EffectAncient GreekIsaacConfused Mind Author:John Brunner