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“The important thing is not what you believe, but how you believe it.” — Bertrand Russell

“To be tolerant, one must define the boundaries of what is intolerable.” ~ Umberto Eco

“The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.” C.S. Lewis

Reject AI hallucinations - Embrace traditional hallucinations

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age.” ― Aldous Huxley

“Schopenhauer played the flute ... every day, after dinner ... a pessimist who negates both God and world but stops before morality, – who affirms morality and plays his flute, affirms 'harm no one' morality: excuse me? is this really – a pessimist?” — Nietzsche

“In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.” Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Whoever takes up philosophy must renounce all hope of being a favourite of the State or of the university chairs. For truth does not enter into such relationships.” Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.” — Otto von Bismarck

He who is intelligent does not seek to impress, but to understand. - Marcus Aurelius

A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, its puzzles are pushing physicists to redefine reality—with themselves at the center. Learn more: scim.ag/4pUAewD @NewsfromScience

.@DavidDeutschOxf: "Intellectuals (people who think for a living) are vulnerable to intellectual fads. This tendency is naturally harmless or beneficial, but becomes very dangerous when amplified by education systems striving for the compulsory standardisation of ideas. Prevailing education systems are authority-based. Deference to authority is made the path to success; then it is deemed a virtue; finally, it passes for rationality."

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” ― Isaac Newton

“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” — Aldous Huxley

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." -- Albert Einstein

This night 102 years ago, Hubble discovered that there're stars outside our galaxy by observing a Cepheid variable star 1 million light years away Until barely a century ago, no human ever knew whether there was more than one galaxy in the Universe. Think about that!

BREAKING: The 2025 Noble Prize for Medicine has been awarded to RFK Jr. for “taking bold action to reduce life expectancies in the USA”. By undermining the health system, RFK Jr. has led the charge to combat the USA's aging population and prevent a pension crisis.

“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.” —William James

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” -- Mark Twain