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“According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.
In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

“What man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conception experience has taught him to see.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

“Newton's three laws of motion are less a product of novel experiments than of the attempt to reinterpret well-known observations in terms of motions and interactions of primary neutral corpuscles”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

“The lie is the future, one may venture to say [...]. To tell the truth is, on the contrary, to say what is or what will have been and it would instead prefer the past.”
― Jacques Derrida, Without Alibi

“Chase after money and security
And your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
And you will be their prisoner.
Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”
― Henry Kissinger