“Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.” ProblemTogetherRealizingSpaceAnswersBrainConsciousnessInformationComputerImpulseNervesEnteringTime And SpaceWovenProteinNeurons Author:Robert Lanza
“Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.” WorldYearsBelieveCharacterProblemFightingStarsSpaceBoysFiveEventsMonstersObsessionFive YearsTeensContinuityCanon Author:John Hodgman
“The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.” WorldHeartProblemSpaceObjectsEmptyConstantDepthSurfaceVisibleEmpty SpaceLayout Author:James J. Gibson
“In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.” ProblemDreamOrderSpaceNumbersCitiesFictionTechnologyImagineScience FictionIncludingNew Technology Author:Ray Bradbury
“It really seems to me sometimes that the only hope is space. That is to say, perhaps the most energeticin a bad senseelements will move on to a new world in space. The problems of mass society will be transported into space, leaving behind this world as a kind of Europe, which then eventually tourists will visit. The Old World. I'm only half joking.” WorldKindSometimesProblemSeemsMovingSpaceBehindsHalfThis WorldElementsMassEuropeLeavingNew WorldTouristsEnergeticSpace TravelOld World Author:Mary McCarthy
“The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.” IfsThinkingHeartFeelingsProblemMightUniverseNamesForceSpaceImpossibleTrainingConceptsCommitRelaxMonkEquilibriumMinimalismOuter SpaceMinimalist Author:Takashi Murakami
“I don't really dream, I space out during the day - that's one of my problems wonder off when someone's talking to me. I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.” I CanRealProblemDreamSeemsRememberSpaceTalkingWonderStrangeReal Life Author:Tim Burton
“The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.” SometimesProblemThreeSpaceRaceWeekMinutesMathSpeedMilesFranceBicycleMarginsEvery SecondMath Problems Author:Lance Armstrong
“The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet at an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers, and to assure universal communications and the relaying of radio and television transmissions. Such an arrangement might prove more useful, economically, than the construction of radio relay systems over the whole surface of the earth. The great accuracy of movement of these satellites will provide a reliable basis for solving navigational problems” WholeProblemMightEarthSpaceExampleMovementTelevisionPlanetsCommunicationRevolutionProveUniversalBasesRadioSurfaceConstructionArrangementsConquestOur PlanetAccuracySatellitesTransmissionRelays Author:Sergei Korolev
“... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.” ProblemDreamSpace Book:Tim Source: Tim
“When I stepped out from doing films and had a dark period, I never did anything dark on a set, so I never made enemies on a set. I never was a bad girl on a set; I always considered films a really sacred space, so when I had my problems, I had them very much away from the film community.” MadeProblemFilmGirlCommunityDarkSpaceEnemyPeriodsSacredBad GirlSacred Space Author:Courtney Love
“No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.” WorldProblemNationsSpacePressureIsraelBurdenHeavyUrgentDrasticHeavy Burdens Author:Barbara Tuchman
“Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.” StillsEndsProblemArtistSpaceCreativityInspirePaintingSourceWestCuriosityEastPainterPlentyUnexplored Author:Guity Novin
“One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.” HumansLongProblemTermSpaceMajorsFlightLong TermRadiationRequirementsMajor ProblemsDeep Space Author:Buzz Aldrin
“So long as space remains, So long sentient beings' suffering remain, I will remain, In order to help, in order to serve... I am nothing but a servant to provide to others. So if you provide some happiness, some comfort to others, then your life becomes meaningful. If your life creates problems or suffering to others, then there's no meaning to your existence.” IfsLongHelpingProblemSufferingOrderSpaceExistenceComfortRemainsMeaningfulServantTortureSentient Beings Author:Dalai Lama
“The problems with conventional parking meters are myriad. Nevertheless, two advanced technologies, multispace parking meters and curb-space occupancy sensors, can make it much easier for users to pay for curb parking, and for cities to adjust prices to meet the demand.” TwoProblemSpacePayCitiesTechnologyEasierDemandUsersConventionalNeverthelessParkingMeterCurbAdvanced TechnologySensorsParking Meters Author:Donald Shoup
“Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether there is objective chance or only uncertainty, whether physics can explain chemical change, whether our behavior is fully determined by our genomes, whether ideation can change the brain, or whether either the economy or ideas are the ultimate roots of the social.” IdeasProblemSocialChanceSpaceBrainEconomyCenturyBehaviorRootsUltimateIndependentPhilosopherDeterminedPhysicsObjectivesContemporaryUncertaintyChemicalsTime And SpaceUnthinkableGenomeIdeation Author:Mario Bunge
“Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.” IfsLongHas BeensProblemMightAbleNightDarkSpaceTechnologyPlanetsEnvironmentalSizeOilScalesDirtyPollutionTolerateBurnedConsumptionCoalMight Have BeenOld FriendsEmbersBiosphere Book:A Short History Of Progress Source: A Short History Of Progress
“But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.” YearsHumansStillsDifferentProblemPastUsedDiesTurnsFoundSpaceLevelsPathFashionMirrorsFinalsTriumphTragicMatureIdleVagueVersusTime And SpaceVansTwistedMotorCartsMazesArchesDifferent LevelsMulesTacklingNarrow PathBreaking Away Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts breaking them down. As on Earth, so in space: use it or lose it. And exercise may not solve the problem.” NeedsMayUseProblemBodyEarthForceLosesSpaceAmountExerciseSolveBonesYour BodyMusclesUse It Or Lose It Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a poetry of evasion, and I have problems with this. I believe poetry has always been political, long before poets had to deal with the page and white space . . . it's natural.” PeopleThinkingBelieveLongWholeMomentsProblemPoliticalI BelieveNaturalSpaceWhiteDealsPoetPagesSamenessEvasionAmerican PoetryThis I BelieveWhite Space Author:Yusef Komunyakaa
“I used to find myself goofed out in the street on drugs. And I had such a bad problem with addiction at the time that I didn't mind. I was dealing cocaine and shooting up a lot of cocaine. And that's not a good space to be in.” MindProblemUsedSpaceStreetsDrugAddictionShootingCocaineShooting Up Author:Will Self
“All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.” ProblemSpaceSubjectsMaterialsUltimateIntelligentLimitationConstraintsSpace TimeProblem Solvers Author:Marvin Minsky