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“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
― The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
― The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
“There are few opinions so absurd that you couldn't find at least one person with a PhD somewhere in the world to endorse them for you.”
― Bad Science
― Bad Science
“He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know but as the essence of knowing. The alternative to uncertainty is authority, against which science had fought for centuries. “Great value of a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance,” he jotted on a sheet of notepaper one day. “... teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed”
― Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
― Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
“The number 2 is a very dangerous number: that is why the dialectic is a dangerous process”
― The Two Cultures
― The Two Cultures
“Do not go by oral tradition, by lineage of teaching, by hearsay, by a collection of texts, by logic, by inferential reasoning, by reasoned cogitation, by the acceptance of a view after pondering it, by the seeming competence of a speaker, or because you think, ‘The ascetic is our teacher.’4 But when you know for yourselves, ‘These things are unwholesome; these things are blamable; these things are censured by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to harm and suffering,’ then you should abandon them.”
― In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
― In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
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