Héctor Mata
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“Anyone—pope, propagandist, anti-Communist, anti-racist—who wants to silence criticism or regulate an argument in order to keep wrong-thinking people out of power has no moral claim to be anything but ignored.”
― Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought
― Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought
“In a conflict of opinion between Einstein and a fool, one wishes for Einstein to prevail. And in a conflict between Einstein and thousand fools or a million, one wishes all the more for Einstein to prevail.”
― Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought
― Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought
“When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.”
― The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
― The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“La hermosa casa de mi abuela no está, ni va a volver, y mi abuela, con sus ojos de agua, tampoco, porque está muerta. Pero yo guardo sus cosas. Su ropa —sus faldas, sus abrigos con olor a butaca de cine—, envuelta en papel azul, en cajas de cartón, con bolsitas repletas de lavanda. ¿Para qué? No sé. O sí. Para algo horrible: para decir —¿decirle?— que yo —su nieta, su atea, su blasfema atroz— tenía razón, y que después no hay nada, pero que igual lo guardé todo. Para decir —¿decirle?—: "Aquí está lo que alguna vez fue tuyo: tus cosas, yo".”
― Teoría de la gravedad
― Teoría de la gravedad
“Without error-correction all information processing, and hence all knowledge-creation, is necessarily bounded. Error-correction is the beginning of infinity.”
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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