Epstein Secrets

poets in my pantheon begin with Keats and Masefield. I haven’t found a clear choice for third. There are awesome things in Milton, Blake, Coleridge, Tennyson, Emily, Houseman, Robinson, Dowson, Yeats and others. Shakespeare, like Mozart, doesn’t figure in the center of the picture. I take him as the grea

| really have a one-man pantheon in Sir William Petty. | suppose that! am the only person to have looked at his portrait alongside Isaac Newton’s, in the Royal Society which they co-founded, and seen the two as intellectual equals. Mill seems a clear second, thanks to his superb paragraph on growth. The candidates f

of progress. But that has never yet been the biggest factor: Consider, say, ancient Athens versus the rest of the world at the time. *° Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Zhe Revenge (1878). 87 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016890 search exhaustively. Every improvement in chess-playing Als, between Alan Turing’s first design for

edical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009); current president of the Royal Society; and the author of Gene Machine: The Race to Discover the Secrets of the Ribosome. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016806 Stuart Russell is a professor of computer

of progress. But that has never yet been the biggest factor: Consider, say, ancient Athens versus the rest of the world at the time. *° Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Zhe Revenge (1878). 87 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016307 search exhaustively. Every improvement in chess-playing Als, between Alan Turing’s first design for

edical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009); current president of the Royal Society; and the author of Gene Machine: The Race to Discover the Secrets of the Ribosome. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016223 Stuart Russell is a professor of computer