“The universe is humbling. Nature hides many of its most interesting mysteries.”| The Marginalian
A subtle reminder that we are separated from those less fortunate than us by little more than unmerited cosmic odds.| The Marginalian
“Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible… We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power.”| The Marginalian
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.| The Marginalian
Reverse-engineering one of the greatest minds of all time by his information diet.| The Marginalian
Fine-tuning the machinery of distinguishing the valid from the non-valid.| The Marginalian
On the art of acquiring “a high degree of intellectual culture without emotional atrophy.”| The Marginalian
“That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.”| The Marginalian
“To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [is to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also…| The Marginalian
“If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.”| The Marginalian