Galileo did not build his new physics by rebelling against a dogma, or by forgetting Aristotle. On the contrary, having learned deeply from him, he worked out how to modify aspects of the Aristotelian conceptual cathedral: between himself
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“A science that closes its ears to philosophy fades into superficiality; a philosophy that pays no attention to the scientific knowledge of its time is obtuse and sterile.”
― There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World
― There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World
“We are intelligent not because we can do one thing particularly well, but because we can learn to do practically anything.”
― A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
― A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
“El tiempo tiene más fuerza que las voluntades humanas para deshacer y mudar las cosas”
― Don Quijote de La Mancha I
― Don Quijote de La Mancha I
“Poetry and science are both manifestations of the spirit that creates new ways of thinking the world, in order to understand it better. Great science and great poetry are both visionary, and sometimes may arrive at the same insights. The culture of today that keeps science and poetry so far apart is essentially foolish, to my way of thinking, because it makes us less able to see the complexity and the beauty of the world as revealed by both.”
― There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World
― There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World
“In the battle between the old brain and the neocortex, the old brain usually wins. We eat the cake.”
― A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
― A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
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