Voltaire Quote on the Human Brain and Belief
“The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”
Voltaire
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Philip Plait on the Energy of Nuclear Weapons in the Cold War
“If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up at the same time, that would be one one-millionth of the energy released at that moment.”
Philip Plait
Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Suffering and Letting Go
“One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields – even to sadness.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Quote About Happiness and Solitude by Voltaire
“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
Voltaire
The World of Abundance – Quote by Paul Feyerabend
“The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites, love affairs; there are the lives of people, Gods, entire galaxies. The simplest human action varies from one person and occasion to the next-how else would we recognize our friends only from their gait, posture, voice, and divine their changing moods? Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback.”
Paul Feyerabend
Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Responsibility
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Quote by Werner Karl Heisenberg on Divisibility and Quantum Mechanics
“By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.”
Werner Karl Heisenberg
A Long Dispute Means Both Parties Are Wrong – Quote by Voltaire
“A long dispute means both parties are wrong.”
Voltaire
Karl Popper on Tolerance and Intolerance
“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”
Karl Popper
Scientific Method and Non-Physical Theories – Robert Lawrence Kuhn
“I like to distinguish between the scientific method, which is applied to all materialistic theories. The scientific method is one of observation or experimentation, repeatability, falsification, the repeatability by different techniques of different labs, or prediction and results. It’s a scientific method. I say that if it’s a non-physical theory, or the theory has any aspect of non-physicalism to it, it doesn’t have to be all, any aspect invalidates, to some degree invalidates, the scientific method as I just described from being applicable. And I think there’s a tendency in some theories that have some non-physical aspect to try to show their legitimacy by applying the scientific method… I think that’s a false desire, because once you’re non-physical you are invalidating, to one degree or another, the scientific method. Maybe not totally, but in some degree.”
Robert Lawrence Kuhn