Sentences with phrase «fascinated about this new thing»

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And it again, it brought home to me the way in which Martin Gardner was at the hub of a vast universe of brilliant, sparkling intellect — including people like Marvin Minsky [at] the M.I.T. artificial intelligence lab; and John Conway who at the time was in England and later came to Princeton and who invented so many deep and fascinating mathematical ideas, especially the Game of Life, to which Martin devoted several columns and which was an incredibly important thing in bringing new ideas to the world of computation and about the cellular automata; and Donald Knuth at Stanford, the great computer [scientist]; Perci Diaconis a statistician who is fascinated by paradoxes of probability and a great magician as well; and Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had a spent a great deal of his life debunking people such as [Uri Geller]; and James Randi, one of the great magicians of our era who also was one of the most important debunkers of pseudoscience in the world.

«The thing that fascinates me most about spintronics is that there has been a constant flow of new discoveries - surprises - that we never could have anticipated,» he says.

Explaining his appearance on the blog, ahead of flight back to the US, Child said: «I read blogs like these and comment occasionally because, yes, I really do care about these things, am endlessly fascinated by new developments in anything, and — again — feel privileged to be watching the self - publishing revolution, which I truly feel to be the biggest single radical act in arts history.

I was fascinated with all things related to automobiles and engines, and I often waited eagerly for my father's car to break down, which meant I could get a chance to learn something new about how to fix it.