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Emil Petersen
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There were two peepholes inside the airlock—with yellow eyes pressed to them. There was a speaker on the wall. The Tralfamadorians had no voice boxes. They communicated telepathically. They were able to talk to Billy by means of a computer
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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
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“One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.”
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“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
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“I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.”
― Letter to a Christian Nation
― Letter to a Christian Nation
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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Danske Læsere / Danmark
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