“To use them, and turn his press into an assembly line, his workers had to master an array of skills—reading the Latin of the source Bible; rapidly and accurately arranging the type, upside down and backward, in frames to duplicate the text for printing; spacing type line by line and employing the scribe’s art of using hyphenation and abbreviations to ensure that it lined up perfectly in two columns of equal width. Not to mention learning to ink the type, work the presses, and pull clear, unblemished pages, tens of thousands of times.”
― The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
― The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
“Perhaps reality is being created in each and every moment, as it is being experienced.”
― The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts
― The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts
“what looks like a quick fix today may well end up having far-reaching and unintended consequences tomorrow.”
― A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
― A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
“Any reality that cannot be experienced is essentially unreal.”
― The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts
― The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts
“And, finally, what good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?2”
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
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