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Adam is Currently Reading

Adam Chilvers is currently reading

How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

by Stanislas Dehaene

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Jun 23, 2024 05:46AM

Adam’s Quotes

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

tags: principia, science

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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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“We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honoured us with rational speech and a sense of equity. And yet we are become worse than the wild beast.”
― John Chrysostom

tags: inspirational, philosophy, veganism

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“No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.”
― John Chrysostom

tags: lent, virtue

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