Knowledge Quotes We are happy to defend what we wrote. We can’t defend what you read By Nate on Saturday, February 5, 2022 — Doomberg
Knowledge Quotes It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. Obviously those two modes of thought are in some tension. But if you are able to exercise only one of these modes, whichever one it is, you’re in deep trouble By Nate on Monday, January 10, 2022 — Carl Sagan
Knowledge Quotes I don’t want to “learn fast”, in any subject. I don’t want shortcuts. If I don’t enjoy the subject, I don’t want to learn it; and if I enjoy it, I want to prolong the pleasure. I avoid what exam-takers do: I trade speed for depth. By Nate on Saturday, December 25, 2021 — Nassim Taleb
Knowledge Quotes You don’t know what’s best for everyone else By Nate on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 — Dan Ferris
Favorites Knowledge Psychology Somehow, within each of our brains, the combined activity of billions of neurons, each one a tiny biological machine, is giving rise to a conscious experience. And not just any conscious experience, your conscious experience, right here, right now. How does this happen? Why do we experience life in the first person? By Nate on Friday, December 10, 2021 — From book “Being You: A New Science of Consciousness“
Knowledge Quotes The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. By Nate on Sunday, November 7, 2021 — Mortimer Adler