Leibniz complained in the seventeenth century about the horrible mass of books that was overwhelming Europe and he said threatened a return to barbarism.
Search Results
You searched for: Big Think
How can a more realistic outlook on the 1950s shed light on the times we are living through today?
Your assessment of how long something took has a lot to do with how much energy your brain has to burn during the event.
I think that it’s great to inspire new generations of thinkers; it’s terrible to create new authority.
When you can’t have something, when it’s not going to work out for you, find a way to not want it.
A few weeks ago Mayor of London Boris Johnson said some questionable things about IQ tests and the benefits of greed, income inequality and shaking boxes of cornflakes. Dorothy Bishop wrote an […]
We’ve made a little progress, perhaps in applications, but not a lot of progress in understanding the hard problem.
Tony Robbins says, "most people over-estimate what they can do in a year and under-estimate what they can do in a lifetime."
Until the late 20th century, Western approaches to mental well-being focused mainly on treatments directly affecting brain function (via surgery, electric shock or pharmaceuticals, for example) or insight-oriented psychotherapy intended […]
I would love to replace a little bit of the revulsion with a little respect and interest.
The best argument against German Unification came from French writer François Mauriac: “J’aime tellement l’Allemagne que je préfère qu’il y en ait deux”. It takes an American to propel that […]
We are only creating the mansions for the souls that only He can create.
I think we all need a fear toolkit that helps us navigate the fear in our lives.
The human brain is a masterpiece of design, which enables us to focus very deeply on a subject.
Even arch rationalists, people who think very carefully, are swayed by the presence of others.
We Earthlings have lots of growing up to do before we reach the shimmering standard of equality set by Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets.
Can the incredibly concrete and the totally abstract coexist?
The challenge for companies and for people is to get focused, ruthlessly focused. And part of doing that is the pruning and deselecting moldy ideas.
When all the galaxies, stars, gas, dust, dark matter and all the other forms of matter and radiation are summed together, its energy still pales in comparison to dark energy. […]
If everybody could fly the inability to fly would become a disability.
One reason that we know that ideas stick and spread is because they’re useful.
Dutch designer Dave Hakkens admits he doesn't know how it would work, but his idea of Phonebloks -- easily-replaced parts that fit together "like Legos" to create a customized phone -- has gained considerable attention.
Now that a prototype of a crew capsule has been built and is ready for testing, it's still not clear how the US' next manned spacecraft will be used.
For many years I struggled to bring participation into my work. Then I learned how to use technology.
Everything we experience and know about is caught in time, is caught in a moment, is not an illusion.
The internet is no longer an alternative to real life, it’s a tool for arranging it. And at that moment, we lost something that we used to call personal life.
Energy becomes literally the fuel that allows us to fulfill almost all of our dreams and what I point out to people is we do have a squanderable abundance of energy. It happens to be sunlight.
Beveridge did what he loved, followed his dream, and ended up beating the odds. Maybe his success is not such a fluke after all.
The idea that there's this massive amount happening under the hood came from Freud.
The people who waved their American flags and shout about patriotism and at the same time don’t want immigrants to come across our borders or are concerned about illegal immigrants have missed the entire point of America.