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Quotations
- I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. – Michel de Montaigne
- My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. – Michel de Montaigne
- Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity. – Michel de Montaigne
- Never Settle. – # One Plus
- Just do it. – #Nike
- Be the change you wish to see in the world. – M K Gandhi
- Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker (what does not kill me makes me stronger. ) – Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the the Idols)
- What does not kill you takes you away from yourself and makes you stranger.
- At a personal level, journey matters. At the community level, result matters. Balance it.
- You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. – Galileo Galilei
- All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. – Galileo Galilei
- Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. – Galileo Galilei
- In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. – Galileo Galilei
- I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. – Galileo Galilei
- There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. – Werner Heisenberg
- What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. – Werner Heisenberg
- An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them. – Werner Heisenberg
- It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
- It’s your life. Make it large. # Royal Stag
Thoughts
- Evolution does defy causality or necessity of medium for communication or discrete nature of the world.
- We are evolved by a sequence of sub-optimal (locally optimal) steps which may result in a globally catastrophic ending.
- Is causality the scientific base for our rationality?
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