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Sometimes it’s okay to find something beautiful without correctly understanding it.
He used to have a shotgun, but he traded it for the car without wheels, figuring a car without wheels was safer than a shotgun.
He was not so arrogant as to refer to his own death as The End, just one of billions of ends before The End. Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.
She wanted to fill in the empty circle of human knowledge with facts and evidence, so we didn’t have to explain the unexplainable with conjecture and legend.
he knew this was only an optical illusion, which is a fancy, scientific phrase for a lie.
Science is fact-based, but those facts have to come from hypotheses, and hypotheses come from inferences from what one sees, or wants to see.
It’s a kind of assault, this constant insistence that we can’t be publicly acknowledged. Sometimes an act as simple as a person recognizing you, your bulk, the tangibility of your skin. That can mean everything.”
one of the most important parts of growing up, and of approaching the world as an adult, was understanding the difference between likable and good, and recognizing that one often had no effect on the other.
Science is designed to be an objective system of proof and disproof, but it is a system created by subjective people, so bias often enters into it in subtle, insidious ways.
This was carelessness, but it could come across as aggression. So much that comes across as aggression is carelessness, and vice versa.
“We all have many things we would have been good at,” said Darryl. “But we can only be what we end up being.”
Science is not inherently good. It is just a method of thought that works to find truth. But the thoughts within that method can lead to good or bad places.
