When these things happen in life, our soul calls on us to learn a lesson. Often we need pain to be able to see the light. Most of us begin our spiritual journey after a job loss or a career change.
— Danny Morel“The way an orchestra is normally structured is cast in the image of what people in the 18th century thought society should look like. It's very top-down, a hierarchical power structure… reflecting the vision of society at the time. I wanted to subvert that by creating a new orchestral structure that reflected how society could be so it came through the musical DNA.”— Max Richter
Renowned composer known for film scores and electronic classical music
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When you embark on that spiritual journey, it's literally a series of deaths that lead to a new, more spiritual life. That part of me had to die for the spiritual part to be born.
— Danny MorelI've done what society tells you is successful, only to feel really empty and alone inside. True success is the discovery of your authentic self—discovering who you are before any wounding, trauma, or limitations were created in your life's journey.
— Danny MorelA complex system is one where the properties of the building blocks, when they interact, can create phenomena that are very different from the building blocks themselves. You take a neuron, which is a cell – you put an electrochemical signal in, electrochemical signal comes out – but somehow you hook 80 billion of them together and you get a brain.
— J. Doyne FarmerComplexity scientist & founding director of Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Economics program
Quantum computing is thus not just a technological pursuit, but a deeply philosophical one, aiming to probe the very foundations of our world.
— Scott AaronsonTheoretical computer scientist specializing in quantum computing and computational complexity
Quantum computing can be seen as a monumental effort to fully confront this exponential scaling that lies at the heart of quantum mechanics. By building and testing quantum computers, we are conducting an experiment that should either indisputably confirm this exponential nature, or overturn a century of established quantum theory.
— Scott AaronsonTheoretical computer scientist specializing in quantum computing and computational complexity
This exponential scaling reveals the immense complexity lurking beneath the surface of reality. Taking full computational advantage of these quantum laws is the essence of quantum computing.
— Scott AaronsonTheoretical computer scientist specializing in quantum computing and computational complexity
The surprising consequence is that amplitudes can interfere with each other. If an event can happen in two different ways, one with a positive amplitude and one with a negative amplitude, the contributions can cancel out, leading to zero probability of the event occurring. Decreasing the number of paths can paradoxically increase the likelihood of an outcome.
— Scott AaronsonTheoretical computer scientist specializing in quantum computing and computational complexity
Your mission in life is where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. When we're being useful and doing what we love, there's a sense of bliss. It's that moment where you say, 'This is why I'm alive. This is reason enough to be alive, right here.'
— Martha BeckLife Coach, Author & Self-Help Expert Known for Relationship & Purpose Guidance
Too often, businesses today are driven solely by academic numbers. But customers aren't numbers. They're human beings who care about storytelling and integrity. You can tell when a product is made by people who care.
— Will Butler-AdamsWe spent a lot of time explaining to our dealers who not to sell the bike to. Their mindset was just 'sell, sell, sell.' But we told them: no, don't sell it to people who don't need it, because they'll never love it.
— Will Butler-AdamsI realized: I'm working for a company that makes people happy. You don't leave that.
— Will Butler-AdamsFrom cell to civilisation took about 4 billion years, which is a long time—a third of the age of the universe. If it takes billions of years to produce complex living things at our level, maybe there aren't many places that could sustain an unbroken chain of life for that long.
— Brian CoxTheoretical Physicist & TV Science Communicator
Most astronomers are surprised, but biologists look at the history of life on Earth. Many biologists I speak to would say it's almost incomprehensible that something as complex as us has even appeared at all—we might just be very lucky.
— Brian CoxTheoretical Physicist & TV Science Communicator
If there are no other complex biological systems in a galaxy like the Milky Way, then there's no meaning in that galaxy at all—so the galaxy is meaningless if there are no complex biological systems in it. We bring meaning to it.
— Brian CoxTheoretical Physicist & TV Science Communicator
Whatever you think it is, meaning self-evidently exists, because the universe means something to each of us. But I would argue that whatever it is, it's an emergent property. So it exists here on Earth because there are complex biological systems. Without those complex biological systems, it doesn't exist. There is no meaning.
— Brian CoxTheoretical Physicist & TV Science Communicator