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A whore is a whore is a whore. Except when he's something else completely. From the writings of King Helios Dayspring, High Priest of the Temple of the Sun ↗

— Belinda McBride

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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing. ↗

— David Eagleman

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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it. ↗

— Atul Gawande

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If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery. ↗

— Sam Harris

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I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that. ↗

— Ben Goldacre

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I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you. ↗

— Ernest Rutherford

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Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.) ↗

— Alan Sokal

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Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious. ↗

— Bill Bryson

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