Fernenanda

“To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“Stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“People had no sense of history, they learned about chemistry and biology and astronomy and thought that these matters had always been the proper meat of science, that they had never been mysterious. The stars had once been mysteries. Lord Kelvin had once called the nature of life and biology - the response of muscles to human will and the generation of trees from seeds - a mystery "infinitely beyond" the reach of science. (Not just a little beyond, mind you, but infinitely beyond. Lord Kelvin certainly had felt a huge emotional charge from not knowing something.) Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality