"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
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Niels Bohr (via philphys
)
"Do I worship modern medicine? Is science my religion? Not at all; there is no aspect of modern medicine or science that I would exempt from the most rigorous scrutiny, and I can readily identify a host of serious problems that still need to be fixed. That’s easy to do, of course, because the worlds of medicine and science are already engaged in the most obsessive, intensive, and humble self-assessments yet known to human institutions, and they regularly make public the results of their self-examinations. Moreover, this open-ended rational criticism, imperfect as it is, is the secret of the astounding success of these human enterprises. There are measurable improvements every day."
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Thank Goodness! by Daniel C. Dennet (via scipsy
)
(via philphys)
"My ambition is handicapped by laziness."
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Charles Bukowski (via imfantasyparade
)
(Source: quote-book)
"Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience… of admitting that ‘I may be wrong and you may be right and, by an effort, we may get nearer the truth.’"
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Karl Popper (via philphys
)
"
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn’t get in, and walk through it, step by step. There’s no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That’s the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.
An you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You’ll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.
And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
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Haruki Murakami | Kafka on the Shore (via blogut
)
(via quote-book)
(via quote-book)
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ADA kutipan bagus dari seorang mahasiswa non-teknik, fakultas adab jurusan sastra Arab:
“Saya kuliah bukan supaya mudah dapat kerja. Saya masuk jurusan sastra karena memang cinta saya di situ. Urusan usai lulus kuliah kerja apa-di mana-dan-bagaimana, itu saya urus dengan kemampuan saya di bidang lain yang selama ini saya pelajari dan saya dalami diam-diam di setiap waktu-waktu senggang. Kalau keilmuan yang saya cintai di bangku kuliah saya andalkan buat cari kerja, itu sama artinya dengan mengotori kemurnian pengabdian saya di bidang sastra. Wilayah akademik, akademik. Urusan profan, profan.”
Dikutip dari halaman Facebook salah seorang kawan blogger.
"Bedanya seorang lulusan Universitas tapi malas -atau bahkan tidak pernah- membaca dengan lulusan Sekolah Dasar tapi rajin membaca adalah yang satu pintar dan cerdas serta berwawasan tinggi, sedangkan satu lagi, sempit wawasannya, sering tidak nyambung dan suka galau sendiri."
