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"You know, philosophers love rational argument...

...it seems as if the ideal argument for most philosophers is: 

you give your audience the premises, 

and then you give them the inferences and the conclusion, 

and if they don't accept the conclusion they die; 

their heads explode!

...but in fact that doesn't change people's minds at all."

Dan Dennett

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
Albert Einstein

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"What is the self? 
How does the activity of neurons
 give rise to the sense
 of being a conscious human being? 
Even this most ancient of philosophical problems, 
I believe, 
will yield to the methods of empirical science."
VS Ramachandran


"As our knowledge [of physics] grows like an island, so too will the shores of ignorance increase."
Marcelo Gleiser

"...So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. 

Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Samuel Clemens