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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

“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"

“Look for systems, not heroes.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Morality is the infusion of chocolate into the veins of all men”
― Tristan Tzara