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🧵 Tonight's SFI Community Lecture by 2x Miller Scholar @Andrea_Wulf begins in just a few minutes!
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Talk starts now with an intro by SFI Prof @C4_Computation:
Q - Flack: "Some of you might wonder how a talk on Humboldt connects to #ComplexityScience."
A - Humboldt: "Knowledge of the chain of connection....the perception of these relations."
Q - Flack: "Some of you might wonder how a talk on Humboldt connects to #ComplexityScience."
A - Humboldt: "Knowledge of the chain of connection....the perception of these relations."
Who was #AlexanderVonHumboldt?
"A man who was so restless he said he was chased by 10,000 pigs... He spent his entire inheritance on a five-year voyage of South America. They called him 'The Shakespeare of the Sciences.'"
- @andrea_wulf
"A man who was so restless he said he was chased by 10,000 pigs... He spent his entire inheritance on a five-year voyage of South America. They called him 'The Shakespeare of the Sciences.'"
- @andrea_wulf
“You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendour of your own light.” ~ #Rumi
#quotes #wisdom #life #light
#quotes #wisdom #life #light
Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.
#Hafiz #Hafez #poetry #sky #clouds #love 💗🌎💗
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.
#Hafiz #Hafez #poetry #sky #clouds #love 💗🌎💗
“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.” ~ Samuel Butler (1835-1902) British poet
#quote #quoteoftheday #life #wisdom #dogsoftwitter #dog
#quote #quoteoftheday #life #wisdom #dogsoftwitter #dog
