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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, by Iain McGilchrist

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Certainty is the greatest of all illusions: whatever kind of fundamentalism it may underwrite, that of religion or of science, it is what the ancients meant by hubris.
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by Iain McGilchrist
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