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Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole

“We all come into the story half way through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.”
Peter Watts, Blindsight

Paul Tremblay
“To forget is to lose something that was once yours, that was once of yourself. But how could one lose something as expansive as an ocean in a dusty corner of one’s mind? What if, instead, to forget is to open a door to a void; the memory is not retrievable because it is not there, was never there.”
Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

“but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke signals. It’s noble, it’s maybe the most noble thing a body can do but you can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.”
Peter Watts, Blindsight

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”4”
Denise Minger, Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health

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