Category: quotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdvWrI_oQjY

http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597314928257169.html

My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world.

— J.B.S. Haldane
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14LpxQWDlAg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghhgUmGBjX8

Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life’s mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous.

Our guest is a multiple award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation and argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and power to cause change, and the quest to improve them is the basic regulating principle not only of science but of all successful human endeavour.

This stream of ever improving explanations has infinite reach. We are subject only to the laws of physics, and they impose no upper boundary to what we can eventually understand, control, and achieve.

He applies that worldview to a wide range of issues and unsolved problems, from creativity and free will to the origin and future of the human species.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Fo_k7RC8g

Any description of the universe is a description of the instrument you used to analyze the universe. Instruments including our brain.

http://www.samharris.org/

http://ocean2012.eu/

Life is a sexual transmitted disease with a 100% mortality.

http://publish.uwo.ca/~dmann/waking_essay.htm

https://www.pixelsham.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/waking_essay.htm

There are two kinds of suffers in this world; those who suffer from lack of life and those who suffer from an over abundance of life.

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