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Becky
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“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”
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“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
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“I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”
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“One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Becky’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Becky’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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13 friends
1,048 books
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621 books
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72 friends
111 books
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94 books
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80 books
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64 books
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Art, Biography, Book Club, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Travel, War, and social justice
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