“If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines - the basis of life - developed, you find an eerie and complete silence. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet-impenetrable barrier to Darwinism's universal reach.” IfsLiteratureSilenceFocusEvolutionMachinesUniversalAccountsBasesRaisesFoundationComplexityBarriersDarwinismParalyzedEerie Author:Michael Behe
“Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.” ThinkingMindPersonsHas BeensImportantIdeasWholeSilenceOpinionGoneEmpathyMachinesDestroyedGiantsDevicesOur ThoughtsEvery Second Author:Gary Shteyngart
“But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have internalized the new machine rhythm, the rush many of my young writers are in to publish. The majority don't want to sit on a book for four, five years. The majority don't want to listen to the silence inside and outside for their artistic imprimatur. The majority want to publish fast, publish now.” WantWritingYearsBookYoungSilenceClearFiveFourDyingStudentsMachinesMajorityRhythmArtisticFive YearsPublishPokeYoung WritersInside And Outside Author:Junot Diaz
“The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream.” StillsDreamLightLastsMemoriesSilenceSeaTearsWindowMachinesWaveStormExplosionsUnstoppableShipwreckNocturnalSleepwalking Author:Alessandro Baricco
“Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!” MenWorldHumansIdeasBodyDiesBornSecretSilenceSolitudeConversationMachinesCarrieConformityIsolatedAlasHuman BodyRecessUnknown Worlds Book:Comedies & proverbs Source: Comedies & proverbs
“We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.” StarsSilenceMachinesSatPlutoEnvisioning Author:Elizabeth Chandler
“I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.” PeopleSilenceTalkingDependsSolitudeMachinesBeing Alone Author:Celine Dion