“How is this symphony of modules coordinated? The short answer is that I don't know, and I don't think that anyone really knows, and that the answer is that there's no one answer, but that, yes, it's all very interesting.”
― Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
― Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
― I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
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“It is better to hear the thunder than to watch the cloud.”
― Melmoth the Wanderer
― Melmoth the Wanderer
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