Friedrich Nietzsche lived from 1844 to 1900, so he never heard of the orange baby, but he clearly knew of people like it. In Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, he wrote: “You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive… Continue reading

“…no amount of technology can turn a bad story into a good story. […] Storytelling is a real art, and that’s something that we’re always going to be working on very, very hard. I don’t think it’s changed in a long time, and I’m not sure it will. And I don’t think it’s something that the technology… Continue reading

This is the ending of A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean. “Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them. “Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually… Continue reading

“The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation for it.” —Eugene Wigner Continue reading