“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“En otras palabras: la corteza frontal, vital para el juicio, se apaga cuando nos enamoramos y así logra que se suspenda toda crítica o duda. ¿Por qué el cerebro se comporta así? Quizá por altos fines biológicos y así promover la reproducción: si el juicio se suspende, hasta la pareja más improbable puede unirse y reproducirse.”
― Usar el cerebro
― Usar el cerebro
“Science, done right, works hard to respect absolutely no authority at all other than experience and empirical data. It never succeeds entirely, but it comes closer and has a better track record than any other method we apes have found for learning about the world around us.”
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
“The stories that science tells about the world filter out into the wider culture, changing the way that we look at the world around us and our place in it. The discovery that the Earth was not at the center of the universe, Darwin’s theory of evolution, the Big Bang and an expanding universe nearly 14 billion years old, containing hundreds of billions of galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars—these ideas have radically altered humanity’s conception of itself.”
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
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