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“Misery is wasted on the miserable.”
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“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
“Stories and fictions are a wonderful thing, especially if you want to get people to cooperate effectively … the problem begins only when people forget that this is only a convention—this is only something we invented and they start confusing it with kind of this is reality, this is the real thing … now there is nothing wrong with these creations as long as they serve us instead of us serving them.”
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