The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

by Ainissa Ramirez

The ease of looking things up assaults our ability to understand and to experience. There is a difference between experientially-knowing and YouTube-knowing. Knowledge cannot be found in a Google search. Wisdom cannot be found in an algorithm. Understanding cannot be downloaded.

there are two parts to being creative: “absorbing the whole world” and “having the time to digest and put things together in a new way.”