“I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.” InspirationalFunnySocialAnimalInterestingTalkingInformationSakeBoringLikesBunchConcreteEngineersSailSailingReally Interesting Author:Temple Grandin
“Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.” InspirationalWellsMayMotivationalAnimalInformationPlanetsFunctionCriticalOur PlanetDolphinsRegeneration Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book [The Sixth Extinction] is that we are unusual.” PeopleTryingHumansLongBookStoriesUniverseAnimalSpecialInformationFitLong TimeSmartUnusualExtinctionParadigmSmart PeopleVery SmartNew Information Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
“I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two systems of heredity enjoyed by man: endosomatic or internal heredity for the ordinary or genetical heredity we have in common with animals; and exosomatic or external heredity for the non-genetic heredity that is peculiarly our own - the heredity that is mediated through tradition, by which I mean the transfer of information through non-genetic channels from one generation to the next.” MenMeanTwoDifferentUsedPurposeNextAnimalCommonGenerationsInformationOrdinaryTraditionEnjoyedInternalsTransfersHeredity Book:The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists Source: The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists
“You just can't make up random information and say it sarcastically and have it make sense. You can't just be like, 'I went out on a date with a Jewish girl. She was more rude than a wolfcat - an animal I've made up and decided is rude.” MadeGirlAnimalInformationDecidedDatingMake SenseRude Author:Eugene Mirman