Use - Quotes
Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.
Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
You’re crazy. You fall down, stand up and walk again,
your ankles and your knees move pain that wanders around,
but you start again as if you had wings.
The ditch calls you, but it’s no use you’re afraid to stay,
and if someone asks why, maybe you turn around and say
that a woman and a sane death a better death wait for you.
Abstract thought can anticipate by centuries hypotheses that find a use - or confirmation - in scientific inquiry.
Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution. Many animals react instinctively with terror and flight at the approach of a predator. It is a healthy reaction, one that allows them to escape from danger. But it`s a terror that lasts an instant, not something that remains with them constantly. Natural selection has produced these big apes with hypertrophic frontal lobes, with an exaggerated ability to predict the future. It`s a prerogative that`s certainly useful but one that has placed before us a vision of our inevitable death, and this triggers the instinct of terror and flight. Basically, I believe that the fear of death is the result of an accidental and clumsy interference between two distinct evolutionary pressures - the product of bad automatic connections in our brain rather than something that has any use or meaning.
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren`t in a very good mood.
Stories are, in one way or another, mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn`t work. Like mirrors, stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in the darkness.
Technology is no more benevolent than a wrench or a screwdriver. It's only good when people make it do good things and use it in good ways.
Time is free, but it`s priceless. You can`t own it, but you can use it. You can`t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you`ve lost it you can never get it back.
You have to pick your battles wisely, because it just takes so much energy to be angry. Energy that you can put to better use.
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad - but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.