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Knowledge and understanding advance through anomalies, not confirmations. It is the “white crows” and “black swans” that push science forwards.
Anthony Peake • The Hidden Universe
The Essentialist doesn’t just recognise the power of choice, he celebrates it. The Essentialist knows that when we surrender our right to choose, we give others not just the power but also the explicit permission to choose for us.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
almost always we choose the rational – not because it is more true, but because it is more defensible.
The last function of being human
The art on this side of the plate, which will seal an opening of the vault on NASA’s Europa Clipper, features waveforms that are visual representations of the sound waves formed by the word “water” in 103 languages. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
“There is a fear of the night that is begotten of ignorance and superstition, a nightmare fear, the fear of the impossible; and there is another fear of the night—of the starlit night—that comes with knowledge, when we see in its true proportion this little life of ours...”
