“Someday," said the Boy-Who-Lived, "when the distant descendants of Homo sapiens are looking back over the history of the galaxy and wondering how it all went so wrong, they will conclude that the original mistake was when someone taught Hermione Granger how to read.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“For an instant Harry imagined his own Mum and Dad in Azkaban with the Dementors sucking out their life, draining away the happy memories of their love for him. Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called an emergency shutdown and told him never to imagine that again.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“I have no great fondness for the universe, but I do live there”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“I am going to tear apart your pathetic little magical remnant of the Dark Ages into pieces smaller than its constituent atoms.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Science taps the power of human understanding to look at the world and figure out how it works. It can't fail without humanity itself failing. Your magic could turn off, and you would hate that, but you would still be you. You would still be alive to regret it. But because science rests upon my human intelligence, it is the power that cannot be removed from me without removing me. Even if the laws of the universe change on me, so that all my knowledge is void, I'll just figure out the new laws, as has been done before. It's not a Muggle thing, it's a human thing, it just refines and trains the power you use every time you look at something you don't understand and ask 'Why?”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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