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Their achievement was sufficiently unprecedented to attract an enduring group of adherents away from competing modes of scientific activity. Simultaneously, it was sufficiently open-ended to leave all sorts of problems for the redefined
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Controversial And open ended makes for a pivotal paper
“When you start a fresh journey into the unknown, it helps to allow random luck to select your path. If not, then you run the risk of letting old habits and burnt-in thought patterns influence the decision-making process. When that happens, it increases the chances of falling right back into the same swirl of discontent from which you are trying to escape.”
― Homeland: Uprising
― Homeland: Uprising
“ignored the stupid orders and filtered the rest down to what was actually doable.”
― A Place Outside the Wild
― A Place Outside the Wild
“The idealist in me wants to think that we'll come out of this feeling like we've been given a second chance at building a civilization that doesn’t have all the evils of the old civilization, but it won't be that. We'll just rebuild the same thing we had before. That's how things have always happened in the past. After the Black Death, people just picked up the pieces and moved on, and things were just like they were before it happened.”
― Infected
― Infected
Mark’s 2024 Year in Books
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