“Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.” LawCoursesIndividualForeverRichEventsShapesLimitsMereSpeciesDetailsScalesTensionFascinatingLaws Of NatureExquisiteLarge ScaleContingencyFrills Book:Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history
“Commitment to the truth...means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events.” WayMeanUnderstandingChallengesSeeingAwarenessEventsTheoryLimitsCommitmentRootsStructureCurrentsInsightWillingnessDeceivingRelentlessCurrent Events Author:Peter Senge
“The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.” MemoriesEventsLimitsInspiredEnduranceFarmersSevereDroughtRanchersOuter Limits Author:Elmer Kelton
“It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.” WorldRealFactsCausesEconomyEventsDemandLimitsReal WorldDenied Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.” WritingStoriesSongDifficultFictionEventsPureLimits Author:Jason Mraz
“In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.” LawPrinciplesEffectsEventsLimitsDiscoveryTasksUncertaintyUncertainty Principle Book:A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes Source: A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes