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“There was a balance. It wasn’t because humans lived in balance with nature. Humans died in balance with nature.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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“Look for systems, not heroes.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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“It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

tags: philosophy-of-life

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“Музо, възпей оня пагубен гняв на Ахила…
Ахил беше грубата сила.
Военния демон.
Ахил беше стар генерал
на Н. Ц. В. цар Агамемнон.
Ахил бе герой.
С безброй
кръстове, ордени, ленти…
Пиедестал
на реда и тишината
в страната…
Но днес ний
не вярваме вече в герои
— ни чужди, ни свои.”
― Гео Милев "Септември"

tags: inspirational

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“Mathematics is the music of reason. To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion—not because it makes no sense to you, but because you gave it sense and you still don't understand what your creation is up to; to have a break-through idea; to be frustrated as an artist; to be awed and overwhelmed by an almost painful beauty; to be alive, damn it.”
― Paul Lockhart , A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

tags: mathematics

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This Group explores scientific topics. We have an active monthly book club, as well as discussions on a variety of topics including science in the new ...more

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For readers who love to learn for learning's sake, this group features regular group reads of nonfiction from a variety of fields, or fictional reads ...more

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you can touch the world, join us. there are a lot of things to know! it doesn't need to be very good at Mathematics,Astronomy,philosophy,... . every ...more

Neuroscience — 61 members — last activity Mar 29, 2015 05:47AM
For anyone interested in the sciences of the brain, i.e. neuroscience, neurology, neurosurgery, neuropsychology and so forth.

The Brain and Mind — 4395 members — last activity Sep 25, 2025 01:42AM
This is a group for readers to recommend and discuss books related to real and/or artificial brains. Categories include but are not limited to: neuros ...more

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