E.O. Wilson on Ideation, Innovation & Developing Solutions

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for it’s own sake. Of foremost importance is a thorough well organized knowledge of all that is known of the relevant entities and processes that might be involved in that domain that you propose to enter.
—E.O. Wilson

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We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. — David Lynch
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We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went & sorry that it’s all gone. — Robert M. Pirsig
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examining our lives

An investigation of our human responsibilities commingles with a discussion of our daily perception of reality in the film Examined Life, a documentary which places some of today’s most influential thinkers in the day to day context of our world.

It takes tremendous discipline, it takes tremendous courage to think for yourself, to examine yourself…
—Cornel West

The film includes Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor.

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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact. —

Carl Sagan (via cwnl)

Inspiration to Stay Curios.

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I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it’s that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear & focused attention that I’m interested in. — Stephen Shore
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