Maximo H. Salinas

“Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with the word no.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“If you want to kill creativity: Get five hours of sleep a night, fight traffic for two hours a day, and start each day with a piping hot thermos of a psychoactive drug. This is the unfortunate and inescapable reality of most Americans today.”
― David Kadavy, Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters

“inarguably symbiotic. The pulses of air by themselves do not constitute any sort of sound, which is obvious because 15-pulse air puffs remain silent no matter how many ears are present. Only when a specific range of pulses are present is the ear’s neural architecture designed to let human consciousness conjure the noise experience. In short, an observer, an ear, and a brain are every bit as necessary for the experience of sound as are the air pulses. The external world and consciousness are correlative. And a tree that falls in an empty forest creates only silent air pulses—tiny puffs of wind.”
― Robert Lanza, Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe

“We talk of the “will of God.” Soon we’re developing ideas of how people should comply with God’s will. But if we look carefully at this, we’ll discover that this is just our putting our ideas of God—that is, our will—onto unwilled nature, onto Reality. If we think of God—or whatever overarching principle we might have in mind—as being “out there,” we should realize that all we are doing is projecting our own attitude, our own view, our own small mind, on the world and on others.”
― Steve Hagen, Buddhism is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs