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“Well, the meek were supposed to inherit the earth, but instead it has gone to the young—the technically inclined, those who stare into video screens rather than into their own souls.
“Well, science and religion are not competitors, they’re two different languages trying to tell the same story. There’s room in this world for both.”
Everyone respects those who live by a code.
simpleminded, unhappy souls, who had never stood for anything, men who blindly abused the liberties and freedoms that others had fought to give them.
a reminder from God that humankind was not meant to understand all things.
In modern art, however, masterpieces are often more about the idea than the execution.
Is Art What Makes Us Human?
it’s not our fault that we believe the crazy things we believe.”
DESPISE CHAOS. CREATE ORDER.
Our predisposition to organization is written into our DNA, and so it should come as no surprise to us that the greatest invention the human mind has created is the computer—a machine designed specifically to help us create order out of chaos.
Where do we come from? Where are we going?
“For the human brain,” Edmond explained, “any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with ‘insufficient data,’
“Since the beginning of religious history, our species has been caught in a never-ending cross fire—atheists, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, the faithful of all religions—and the only thing that unites us all is our deep longing for peace.”
