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“I am reminded to do as Darwin did: to wonder about the reality waiting behind our assumption.”
― Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
― Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
“...we barely know the world around us, even the simplest things under our feet..we have been wrong before and we will be wrong again...the true path to progress is paved not with certainty but doubt, with being "open to revision.”
― Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
― Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
“The best way of ensuring you don't miss them(the good things in store), these gifts, the trick that has helped me squint at the bleakness and see them more clearly, is to admit, with every breath, that you have no idea what you are looking at. To examine each object in the avalanche of Chaos with curiosity, with doubt.”
― Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
― Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
“Among the relics of the Anthropocene, therefore, will be the fallout of our atomic age, the crushed foundations of our cities, the spines of millions of intensively farmed ungulates, and the faint outlines of some of the billions of plastic bottles we produce each year – the strata that contain them precisely dateable with reference to the product-design archives of multinationals. Philip Larkin famously proposed that what will survive of us is love. Wrong. What will survive of us is plastic, swine bones and lead-207, the stable isotope at the end of the uranium-235 decay chain.”
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
“If changing strategies doesn’t help, you can try to change the game. And if that’s not possible, you can at least exercise some control about which games you choose to play. The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades. Seek out games where honesty is the dominant strategy. Then just be yourself.”
― Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
― Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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