Quote of the day
Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.
William Whewell
Born: May 24, 1794
Died: March 6, 1866 (aged 71)
Bio: William Whewell was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Known for:
- The philosophy of the inductive sciences (1840)
- History of the inductive sciences (1837)
- The plurality of worlds .. (1853)
- The elements of morality: including polity (1845)
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