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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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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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Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it. ↗

— David Chalmers

#before #bottom #consciousness #few #fundamentally

I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it. ↗

— Jay Kay

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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ↗

— Joseph Chamberlain

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This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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