Origins of Things
A collection of things — ideas, thoughts, quotes, books, posts, skills, and more, that I found, or made, and locked them in time — that have contributed to the things I create and could benefit you too.
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End Times
"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism...
A Short History of Nearly Everything: A Journey Through Space and Time
"For all their devoted attention, your atoms don't actually care about you—indeed, don't even know that you are there...
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
"Just as an infinite tower of tortoises supporting the flat earth is such a picture, so is the theory of superstrings. Both are theories of the universe...
The Order of Time
"This is time, familiar and intimate. We are taken by it. The rush of seconds, hours, years that hurls us toward life then drags us toward nothingness...
Until the End of Time
"Eternity itself may forever lie beyond the reach of our equations, but our analyses have already revealed that the universe we have come to know is transitory...
The Haunting of Hill House
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream...
Poetics (Penguin Classics)
"All human beings by nature desire knowledge - a fundamental premise of Aristotle’s understanding of what it is to be human...
Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation
"Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still...
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
"What was God doing before He created the Universe? Before He created Heaven and Earth...
The Magic Furnace
"Every breath you take contains atoms forged in the blistering furnaces deep inside stars...
Humanity: An Emotional History
"A better day will come, or might come, while the bad ones steal by in the interim...
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