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“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
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“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
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“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
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“It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a lichen? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours—arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on. Lichens don't. Like virtually all living things, they will suffer any hardship, endure any insult, for a moment's additional existence. Life, in short, just wants to be.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
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