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I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

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Ignorance is never better than knowledge. ↗

— Enrico Fermi

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There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem. ↗

— David Chalmers

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They were willing to do anything to stop me. ↗

— Wilt Chamberlain

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The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission. ↗

— Enrico Fermi

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There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. ↗

— Enrico Fermi

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Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! ↗

— David Chalmers

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Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with. ↗

— David Chalmers

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Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news. ↗

— David Chalmers

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I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years. ↗

— David Chalmers

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