Thomas Pynchon
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Science Quotes by Thomas Pynchon (2)

If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
— Thomas Pynchon
Vineland (1900, 1997), 90.
See also:  |  Binary (3)  |  Creature (18)  |  Death (95)  |  Individual (12)  |  Life (169)  |  String (3)

Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate energy into one favored room of the Creation at the expense of everything else.
— Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow (1973), 411.
See also:  |  Creation (51)  |  Energy (42)  |  Gate (2)  |  Justus von Liebig (33)  |  James Clerk Maxwell (59)


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