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Einstein should have spent more time investigating the uneven way that time passed in December, the supermassive black hole of the Gregorian calendar.
The gulf between witnessing hatred and being its object was as wide as the ocean.
Still, in the end, it’s up to each of us to look out for our own interests, because no one else will unless their interests align.
“Half of science these days is finally catching up to the whims and dreams of writers from the 1950s,”
Sometimes children had a way of knowing when not to make more of a thing than it had to be.
Complicated is only bad to the kind of people who need things to be simple.”
Humans are very good at inventing solutions and very, very bad at anticipating consequences.”
“The anthill doesn’t exist without the ant. But if a human builds a house, according to you, that is unnatural? It’s nothing more than a semantic contrivance to make us feel special. Some native insecurity of our species, I suppose. Human beings have exactly one thing going for us—our minds. We’re neither the fastest nor the strongest. Adapting the environment to our needs is what’s natural for us. What nature intended, if you prefer. We are nature’s greatest builders. It is what we have always done. It’s what I have done. It’s pure hubris to label our nature unnatural.”
Most of life is lived to be forgotten. That was the way of things, cruel though it felt when it was your life that would be lost.
