Book: Fiasco

The number of unknown to the unknown common denominator is an acquisition, not a loss of information...

Can we call the progress of science a situation where specialization crushes any activity - cognitive, creative, intellectual, creative, so that in any specialty, each deeper plowing its ever-diminishing allotment? If machines do the calculations faster and better than living entity why would he count? If the system of photosynthesis to create food more varied and healthy than farmers, bakers, chefs, pastry chefs, what to cultivate fields and to engage in the flour milling or bread making? Why did civilization in this socialism does not send you in all directions of the sky recipes own perfection and comfort? But why would she actually do when she actually no longer exists as a community of insatiable stomachs and minds.

Man yearns for the final truth. He believes that this tends to any mortal mind. What is the ultimate truth? It is the end point of the path where there are no more secrets, no hope. When nothing should ask because all the answers have been given. There was no such place. The space is a maze created out of the mazes. Each reveals the following. To those places where you can not enter us, we get with the help of mathematics. We create the vehicles for non-human regions of the world. And yet - of mathematics can be designed incosmetika worlds regardless of whether they exist. In addition, you can leave the math and its worlds for the faith in the world beyond.

Physics is a narrow footpath over precipices, inaccessible to human imagination. This is a collection of answers to some questions that we ask the world and the world responds to us - with the condition that we are not going to ask him other questions, which cries out for common sense. What is common sense? That which contains intelligence is based on the same feelings that the apes. Intelligence, knowing the world in accordance with laws, formed its terrestrial biological niche. But the world outside of this niche, this hotbed of smart chelovekoobraznoe, has features that you cannot take in hand, to see, to bite, to hear, to feel and thus to learn.

For a person not very well up in his own device, and spiritually. It makes visible the boundaries of human capabilities, and people taking it the worse, the less they have limited aspirations.

- If you were standing in a crowded lifeboat, and the sinking, for which no room left, enough would over the gunwales, causing the boat could capsize, you chopped off their hands. Really?
- I'm afraid so. If there was no other salvation.
- This is the difference between us.