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#1

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

#2

“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: experimentation, science, theory

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#3

“The notion that the world is mostly made up of small sets is an illusion imposed on us by our perceptual and cognitive systems.”
― Stanislas Dehaene

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#4

“How does the living organism avoid decay? The obvious answer is: By eating, drinking, breathing and (in the case of plants) assimilating. The technical term is metabolism. The Greek word () means change or exchange. Exchange of what?”
― Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life?

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#5

“All the physical and chemical laws that are known to play an important part in the life of organisms are of this statistical kind; any other kind of lawfulness and orderliness that one might think of is being perpetually disturbed and made inoperative by the unceasing heat motion of the atoms.”
― Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life?

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#6

“There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.”
― Bruce Rosenblum, Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness

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#7

“Since the atoms are indestructible, the disintegration of human body after death should be actually considered as the dispersion of the separate filaments (except probably those forming the bones) in all different directions.”
― George Gamow, One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science

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#8

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: science

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#9

“Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.”
― James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds

tags: decisions, independence

6 likes

#10

“Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.”
― Simon Singh

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#11

“In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.”
― Michio Kaku

tags: gravity, physics, science, spacetime

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#12

“Yo no estudio para escribir, ni menos para enseñar (que fuera en mí desmedida soberbia), sino sólo por ver si con estudiar ignoro menos. Así lo respondo y así lo siento.”
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, The Answer / La Respuesta

tags: education

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#13

“Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.”
― Brian Greene

tags: choice, determinism, free-will, illusory, laws-of-physics, materialism, physics, science

25 likes

#14

“privation is the cause of appetite”
― Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings

tags: appetite, longing

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#15

“Las grandes desigualdades de nuestro siglo son las que separan a quienes saben y tienen acceso educativo a las fuentes el conocimiento de quienes necesitan la tutela informativa de los demás toda la vida”
― Fernando Savater, Diccionario del ciudadano sin miedo a saber

tags: inequality, knowledge

3 likes

#16

“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
― Brian Cox

tags: consciousness, cosmos, inspirational, life, universe

304 likes

#17

“Leadership is not domination, but the art of persuading people to work toward a common goal.”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

50 likes

#18

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

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#19

“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen. —Earl Wilson”
― Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

3 likes

#20

“Don’t listen to what people say; watch what they do.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

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#21

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” Buddhist nun Pema Chodron”
― Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path

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#22

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

31242 likes

#23

“One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.”
― Lee Smolin

tags: christian, cosmology, metaphysics, physics, science, theology

55 likes

#24

“A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Pocket Pema Chodron

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#25

“Estamos destinados a inventar nuestro destino, sin segundas oportunidades. Por eso los hombres nos equivocamos y nos defraudamos, y cometemos atrocidades, pero también, gracias a eso, podemos transformar nuestra vida, inventar sus contenidos.”
― Fernando Savater, Ética de urgencia

tags: filosofía, libertad, optimismo, ética

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#26

“Créeme, las circunstancias nunca suelen ser favorables. No hay que depender de ellas. Lo importante es lo que uno siente, lo que uno quiere, lo que uno sabe. Tenemos que vivir a pesar de la realidad e incluso contra ella, sin esperar a que nos sea propicia como hacne los ilusos, o los cobardes.”
― Fernando Savater, Los invitados de la princesa

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#27

“Para un intelectual, el arte de hacerse simpático consiste en fingir que comparte la variedad de estupidez más arraigada en el colectivo cuyo favor pretende.”
― Fernando Savater, Los invitados de la princesa

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#28

“Desengáñate: de una cosa -aunque sea la mejor cosa del mundo- sólo pueden sacarse...cosas. Nadie es capaz de dar lo que no tiene, ¿verdad?, ni mucho menos nada puede dar más de lo que es.”
― Fernando Savater, Ética para Amador

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#29

“La verdad es que las cosas que tenemos nos tienen ellas también a nosotros en contrapartida: lo que poseemos nos posee.”
― Fernando Savater, Ética para Amador

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#30

“No creo que sea posible caminar por la vida con la Razón, con «R» mayúscula, sino que hay que llevar consigo muchas razones con minúscula para intercambiar con los demás.”
― Fernando Savater, Ética para la empresa

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