“Humankind’s strongest social bonds and actions, including the capacities for cooperation and forgiveness, and for killing and allowing oneself to be killed, are born of commitment to causes and courses of action that are “ineffable”—that is, fundamentally immune to logical assessment for consistency and to empirical evaluation for costs and consequences.”
― This Explains Everything: 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
― This Explains Everything: 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
“The universe consists primarily of dark matter. We can’t see it, but it has an enormous gravitational force. The conscious mind—much like the visible aspect of the universe—is only a small fraction of the mental world. The dark matter of the mind, the unconscious, has the greatest psychic gravity. Disregard the dark matter of the universe and anomalies appear. Ignore the dark matter of the mind and our irrationality is inexplicable.”
― This Explains Everything: 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
― This Explains Everything: 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
“it is more important to have beauty in one’s equations than to have them fit experiment.”
― This Explains Everything: 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
― This Explains Everything: 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
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