Mir Suhayl

“The supposed conflict between heredity and environment is quite superficial; the two are connected by double ties: first that the surest and probably the quickest way to improve environment is to secure a sound stock; and secondly that, for the eugenist, the best environment is that which effects the most rapid racial improvements. The ordinary social reformer sets out with a belief that no environement can be too good for humanity; it is without contradicting this, that the eugenist may add that man can never be too good for the environment.”
― Ronald A. Fisher

“The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier. Social subjects, classified by their classifications, distinguish themselves by the distinctions they make, between the beautiful and the ugly, the distinguished and the vulgar, in which their position in the objective classifications is expressed or betrayed.”
― Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

“The fact that entangled particles can influence each other faster than the speed of light is taken as proof that there is a spiritual domain of instant communication outside material reality; the fact that a wave function collapses into reality through observation is interpreted as a proof that observation creates reality... no wonder many podcasts claim that quantum mechanics proves material reality is a simulacrum, that all there is, is spirit, etc.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy