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“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
― Pursuit of Perfect
― Pursuit of Perfect
“there is only one true heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it”
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“As we understand the world better, the idea that it has a transcendent purpose seems increasingly untenable.”
― The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
― The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
“Whatever the final laws of nature may be, there is no reason to suppose that they are designed to make physicists happy.”
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
“Poetic naturalism is a philosophy of freedom and responsibility. The raw materials of life are given to us by the natural world, and we must work to understand them and accept the consequences. The move from description to prescription, from saying what happens to passing judgment on what should happen, is a creative one, a fundamentally human act. The world is just the world, unfolding according to the patterns of nature, free of any judgmental attributes. The world exists; beauty and goodness are things that we bring to it.”
― The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
― The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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