The Weirdness of the World Quotes

“What's life for if there's no time to play and explore?”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World

“In each of our heads there are about as many neurons as stars in our galaxy, and each neuron is arguably more structurally complex than any star system that does not contain life. There is as much complexity and mystery inside us as out.”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World

“cannot know which among the various bizarre and dubious alternatives is in fact correct.”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World

“Something radically strange and counterintuitive must be true about the relationship between mind and world.”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World

“worth some of our time in a society generous enough to permit us such time”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World

“We ought not trust that the current range of mainstream theories will closely resemble the range in a hundred years”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World

“ought to hold such theories only tentatively.”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World

“every approach to cosmology and consciousness has implications that run strikingly contrary to mainstream “common sense”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World

“bizarre metaphysical or cosmological views”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World

“Universal Bizarreness thesis and the Universal Dubiety thesis.”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World

“How boring it would be if everything made sense!”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World

“It is progress to create doubt where none existed before, if that doubt appropriately reflects our ignorance. It is progress to appreciate possibilities we hadn't previously recognized. It is progress to chart previously unthought landscapes of what might be so.”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World

“I find something wonderful in not knowing.”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World

“It would just be too sad if the world had no space for speculation about wild hypotheticals.”
― Eric Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World