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Time
Time heals all… but what if Time itself is the disease? Wings of desire, Wim Wenders
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People are forgotten…
People are forgotten. Eventually no one remembers you. Hotel Silence, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir.
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The hypothesis of God…
The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and explain every phenomenon away on the basis of that system. An approach like that doesn’t require any knowledge. Just a few memorized formulas plus so-called intuition and…
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About science and knowledge.
Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are…
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Station 11
What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost. — Emily St John Mandel, Station 11.
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About science and spirituality
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light‐years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So…