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“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a very narrow definition of truth. If something can’t be quantified and calculated, then it can’t be true. Because this strict scientific approach has explained so much, we assume that it can explain everything. But every method, even the experimental method, has limits. Take the human mind. Scientists describe our brain in terms of its physical details; they say we are nothing but a loom of electrical cells and synaptic spaces. What science forgets is that this isn’t how we experience the world. (We feel like the ghost, not like the machine.) It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art. By expressing our actual experience, the artist reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness.”
― Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist

“There was a balance. It wasn’t because humans lived in balance with nature. Humans died in balance with nature.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Музо, възпей оня пагубен гняв на Ахила…
Ахил беше грубата сила.
Военния демон.
Ахил беше стар генерал
на Н. Ц. В. цар Агамемнон.
Ахил бе герой.
С безброй
кръстове, ордени, ленти…
Пиедестал
на реда и тишината
в страната…
Но днес ний
не вярваме вече в герои
— ни чужди, ни свои.”
― Гео Милев "Септември"

“As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature. [This] clearly indicates the true place of man in nature, but it dissipates the prevalent illusion of man's supreme importance and the arrogance with which he sets himself apart from the illimitable universe and exalts himself to the position of its most valuable element.”
― Ernst Haeckel, Riddle of the Universe