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It’s my boy Socrates and his homeboys! Get in losers, we’re going to do metaphysics! 😎

This guy giving me the actual tea about lunar mansions (fascinating!) while simultaneously pissing me off with his arbitrarily upheld legalism regarding mansion division in the 12 Signs…(maybe I need more context or something…) Also he seems to contradict himself in delineations. Very frustrating.

This is blowing my mind!! 🤯🤯🤯

"It is, to a large extent, the ending that determines the meaning, the import, the significance of the earlier events." | The Michael Scott THANK YOU gif. 👏

This is the most harrowing, heartbreaking read. My heart grieves. 😢

"Federico de Soya sighed and closed his eyes. He felt like crying. Please, dear Lord, let this cup passeth from me."

LET THE MAN REST YOU COWARDS

"But when Polemarchus and I had done speaking and there was a pause, he could no longer hold his peace; and, gathering himself up, he came at us like a wild beast, seeking to devour us. We were quite panic-stricken at the sight of him." | No one said reading Plato would be hilarious. This debate about justice is cracking me up! 😂

“The bees hum about my shoulders and tangle in my hair, as overjoyed to see me as I am to see them.”

Father Captain de Soya is giving me reliving the Carlos de Baca (Bull) trauma from Abaddon's Gate vibes. 😞

What I love about this book is that it is mainly just the characters vibing on different planets. 😌

“Father included poetry and music and art as part of that response to nature. It’s a fallible but human way of resonating to the universe—nature creates that energy of creation in us. For Father imagination and truth were the same thing. He once wrote—‘The Imagination may be compared to Adam’s dream—he awoke and found it truth.’ ” - “Does that mean that fiction is truer than … truth?”

"The disciple, driven to despair by his failure to pay the tribute he felt he owed his mentor, had given Galileo something dearer than bronze or marble to distinguish his grave. Even now, no inscription on Galileo’s much-visited tomb in Santa Croce announces the presence of Suor Maria Celeste. But still she is there." 😭

“This universe, which I with my astonishing observations and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred, nay, a thousandfold beyond the limits commonly seen by wise men of all centuries past, is now for me so diminished and reduced, it has shrunk to the meager confines of my body.”

"I want to make the point that badly needs to be understood these days, and that is that science is not the only legitimate font of knowledge and that It can and should be challenged on some of its most fundamental preconceptions. I want to lift its skirts and expose the rot in its foundations."

Instead of merely studying and describing the phenomena we observe, we are asking ourselves questions of WHY. Whereas physicists have traditionally asked questions such as “How do electrons interact with one another?” or “What are protons made of?,” they are increasingly thinking about WHY these things are the way they are. Not merely how nature is, but why it is the way that it is. | Dude, it's about time. 😒

Instead of merely studying and describing the phenomena we observe, we are asking ourselves questions of WHY. Whereas physicists have traditionally asked questions such as “How do electrons interact with one another?” or “What are protons made of?,” they are increasingly thinking about WHY these things are the way they are. Not merely how nature is, but why it is the way that it is. | Dude, it's about time. 😒

Instead of merely studying and describing the phenomena we observe, we are asking ourselves questions of WHY. Whereas physicists have traditionally asked questions such as “How do electrons interact with one another?” or “What are protons made of?,” they are increasingly thinking about WHY these things are the way they are. Not merely how nature is, but why it is the way that it is. | Dude, it's about time. 😒

"Helium represents a huge fraction of the atoms in our universe—about 25 percent by mass. There seemed to be no way that so much helium could have formed in stars." | "So people are just balloons??!" - Crow T. Robot

"Wheeler ends his over-1,200-page book with a schema that in some ways is canonically mathematical to the core: Logic → Set → Topology → Geometry → Physics . . . ." | "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1

"Meister investigates how these two concepts, perspective and focalization, can be formalized in the context of a theoretical story generator algorithm—“algorithm” already referring to mathematical concepts—and proposes ways in which mathematical tools may help in the modeling of narrative subjectivity." | But why would you want to do this, though? 😕 (This book is going to be intense.)