Whats - Quotes
Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what`s true from what feels good.
Because if everything`s finite, if everything has a definite beginning, middle, and end, then why even get started in the first place? What`s the point when everything just leads to The End?
Well, that`s what love is like. It makes your heart race. It turns the world upside down. But if you`re not careful, if you don`t keep your eyes on something still, you can lose your balance. You can`t see what`s happening to the people around you. You can`t see that you`re about to fall.
Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What`s left is magic. And it doesn`t work.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what`s true.
What`s morality? It`s the difference between what is right and what you can rationalize.
Normal is just what`s average, it`s not necessarily the only way of being, or living.
If I ask for something and you give it, do it without a speech; otherwise what's the point of giving.
At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what`s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That`s the world`s greatest lie.
I think [...] [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can`t be defended against with weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what`s coming.
When you sell your time, you are giving up your right to decide what's worth doing.