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Brain Pickings
Seth Kramer • 1 card
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Christina Stewart • 2 cards
The thing that really is trying to tyrannise through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in statutes, and spread not by pi
... See moreG. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable. Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love
... See morePaul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Albert Einstein possédait un énorme gyrus angulaire
Vilayanur Ramachandran • Le cerveau fait de l'esprit : Enquête sur les neurones miroirs (Quai des Sciences) (French Edition)
My education, as well as the influence of the media, caused me to be skeptical about all claims involving the paranormal, psychics, and other unconventional phenomena. The media had presented all these topics as being due to hoaxes and hallucinations. But as I investigated more deeply, I was amazed at how many top-quality researchers, M.D.s and Ph.
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