“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”Quotation / Philosophy, Learning
Learning and thought · Confucius
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy
That's home · Carl Sagan
Book note / Science, Philosophy
Pale Blue Dot · Carl Sagan
Book note / Philosophy, History
The Analects · Confucius
Book note / Science, Philosophy
The Selfish Gene · Richard Dawkins
Book note / Science, Philosophy
What Is Life? · Erwin Schrödinger
“If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason, for then we would know the mind of God.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy
The mind of God · Stephen Hawking
“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge.”Quotation / Philosophy, Learning
This is knowledge · Confucius
Book note / Science, Philosophy
The Grand Design · Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy
Comprehensible and pointless · Steven Weinberg
“We are survival machines, robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy
Survival machines · Richard Dawkins
“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy
The mystery of comprehensibility · Albert Einstein
“We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy
The present state of the universe · Pierre-Simon Laplace
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy, History
Atoms and the void · Attributed to Democritus
“Philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.”Quotation / Philosophy, Science
Philosophy is dead · Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
“I think, therefore I am.”Quotation / Philosophy, History
I think, therefore I am · René Descartes
Book note / Philosophy, History
Meditations · Marcus Aurelius
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”Quotation / Philosophy
Power over your mind · Marcus Aurelius
Idea / Learning, Philosophy
One big question per month
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”Quotation / Philosophy
The unexamined life · Socrates
Article / Learning, Philosophy
On reading slowly
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