Katherine

“As science historian Michael Shermer notes, “Smart people believe weird things because they are better at rationalizing their beliefs that they hold for non-smart reasons.”
― Armin Navabi, Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God

“The reality of social networking sites is that they provide platforms for online personae to interact with other online personae. Importantly, such relationships can be ended with a click of an 'unfriend,' 'unfollow,' or 'block' button. Breaking up like this constitutes a morally lightweight action. Certainly it flies in the face of Cicero's advice that a friendship 'should seem to fade away rather than to be stamped out.' The respect that Cicero demanded that we pay to a friendship, even one that has turned sour, did not anticipate the tenuous connection inherent in being a facebook friend.”
― Marilyn Yalom, The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship

“We refer to them as neutrons (neutral) and protons (positive). If the first is the customer, and the second is the bartender, the neutron asks, “Why didn’t I get a check?” The proton bartender replies, “For you, there’s no charge.” The neutron asks again, “Are you sure?” And the proton replies, “I’m positive!” See? Comedy is that simple …”
― Bill Nye, Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World

“Moreover, despite the astonishing things that humans are capable of doing, we remain unsure of our goals and we seem to be as discontented as ever. We have advanced from canoes to galleys to steamships to space shuttles - but nobody knows where we're going.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind