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Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable. ↗

— Howard Pattee

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Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial-notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit. ↗

— Harry G. Frankfurt

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It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. ↗

— Kevin Alan Lee

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In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. ↗

— Louis Althusser

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Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry. ↗

— Charles S. Peirce

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This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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