What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they...
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Neil Degrasse Tyson
And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you...
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Unknown
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Isaac Asimov
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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Arthur C. Clarke
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Charles Darwin
More Quotes By Rebecca Goldstein
No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire...
(As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.
Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.
Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.
Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself.
