“The universe is humbling. Nature hides many of its most interesting mysteries.”| The Marginalian
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.| 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
“In the course of looking deeply within ourselves, we may challenge notions that give comfort before the terrors of the world.”| The Marginalian
“Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge… It can tell us when we’re being lied to. It provides a mid-course correction to our mistakes.”| The Marginalian
“Before we raise such questions as What is happiness, what is justice, what is knowledge, and so on, we must have seen happy and unhappy people, witnessed just and unjust deeds, experienced t…| The Marginalian
“Faith is the willingness to give ourselves over, at times, to things we do not fully understand… the full engagement with this strange and shimmering world.”| The Marginalian
“Nothing and nobody exists in this world whose very being does not presuppose a spectator.”| The Marginalian
“We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.”| The Marginalian
“We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.”| 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
How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.”| The Marginalian