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Carl Sagan on Mastering the Vital Balance of... →
It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. Obviously those two modes of thought are in some tension. But if you are able to exercise only one of these modes, whichever one it is, you’re in deep trouble.
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Bad news and good dope.
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There's a shitty limousine parked in front of the...
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In a world thronged with monsters and with gods, we are barely conscious of...
– Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, trans. Moncrieff and Kilmartin (via proustitute)
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