Julio Esparza

“Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation. I, for instance, would not be in the least surprised if all of a sudden, A PROPOS of nothing, in the midst of general prosperity a gentleman with an ignoble, or rather with a reactionary and ironical, countenance were to arise and, putting his arms akimbo, say to us all: "I say, gentleman, hadn't we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to the winds, simply to send these logarithms to the devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will!" That again would not matter, but what is annoying is that he would be sure to find followers--such is the nature of man. And”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“En resumen, un científico es por definición un rebelde que se enfrenta a todo lo establecido, que desafía el principio de autoridad y que no se cree nada de lo que le cuentan. Todo científico es un escéptico y un revolucionario. Por eso soy científico, no porque acepte sin crítica lo que me diga la academia. Además, ¿quién es la academia? La ciencia no tiene sanedrines.”
― Juan Luis Arsuaga, Vida, la gran historia: Un viaje por el laberinto de la evolución (Imago Mundi)

“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken.

Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.

It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance