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“While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing nature.”
― Mike McRae, Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs and Bad Ideas

tags: brain, nature, science, scientific-method, storytelling

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

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“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: free-speech

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“All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: censorship, education, free-speech, paraphrased

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