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- “Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their whole lives in the course of a single day. From the point of view of a mayfly, human beings are stolid, boring, almost entirely immovable, offering hardly a hint that they ever do anything. From the point of view of a star, a human being is a tiny flash, one of billions of brief lives flickering tenuously on the surface of a strangely cold, anomalously solid, exotically remote sphere of silicate and iron.”
— Carl Sagan, ‘Cosmos: A Personal Voyage’
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Todo un fin de semana para leer los libros de la biblioteca (ilustración de Julianna Swaney)
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Golgotha, 1900, Edvard Munch
Medium: oil,canvas-
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Malcolm T. Liepke, “Recent Paintings.”
Brand new paintings by artist Malcolm T. Liepke currently on view at Arcadia Contemporary in Pasadena, California until December 12th, 2019.
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“It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.”
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Charles Sanders Peirce
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Graphic - Edward Hopper
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- "If one is a research worker, one mustn’t believe in anything too strongly; one must always be prepared that various beliefs one has had for a long time may be overthrown."
—Paul Dirac, quoted in The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom, p. 376. Graham Farmelo, Basic Books, 2009.
The reference for the quote in the book is Dirac’s 1966 Lectures on Quantum Field Theory, New York, Belfer Graduate School of Science, Yeshiva University.
Fallibilism, Peirce.
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Less than 100% of people who have died are dead
