Héctor Mata

“Without error-correction all information processing, and hence all knowledge-creation, is necessarily bounded. Error-correction is the beginning of infinity.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

“Scientists, for their part, need to be far more engaged with current public debates. They “should not be afraid of making their voice heard when the debate wanders into their field of expertise, be it medicine or history. Silence isn’t neuatrality; it is supporting the status quo. Of course, it is extremely important to go on doing academic research and to publish the results in scientific journals that only a few experts read. But it is equally important to communicate the latest scientific theories to the general public through popular-science books, and even through the skilful use of art and fiction.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“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.”
― Jonathan Rauch, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought

“When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell