Andy

“He studied scientific truths, then became upset even more by the apparent cause of their temporal condition. It looked as though the
time spans of scientific truths are an inverse function of the intensity of scientific effort. Thus the scientific truths of the twentieth
century seem to have a much shorter life-span than those of the last century because scientific activity is now much greater. If, in the
next century, scientific activity increases tenfold, then the life expectancy of any scientific truth can be expected to drop to perhaps
one-tenth as long as now. What shortens the life-span of the existing truth is the volume of hypotheses offered to replace it; the more
the hypotheses, the shorter the time span of the truth. And what seems to be causing the number of hypotheses to grow in recent
decades seems to be nothing other than scientific method itself. The more you look, the more you see. Instead of selecting one truth
from a multitude you are increasing the multitude. What this means logically is that as you try to move toward unchanging truth
through the application of scientific method, you actually do not move toward it at all. You move away from it! It is your application of
scientific method that is causing it to change”
― Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines us (frontal cortex) is less a product of the genes with which you started life than of what life has thrown at you. Because it is the last to mature, by definition the frontal cortex is the brain region least constrained by genes and most sculpted by experience. This must be so, to be the supremely complex social species that we are. Ironically, it seems that the genetic program of human brain development has evolved to, as much as possible, free the frontal cortex from genes.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“But there’s a kind of offering in the generosity of water holding you afloat. In the way water holds feeling, how the body is most alive submerged and enveloped, there is the fullness of grace given freely.”
― Jessica J. Lee, Turning: Lessons from Swimming Berlin's Lakes