“[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transformación era la tecnología.” ScienceTechnologyHuman NatureHumanidadCienciaTecnologíaSiglo Xx Book:The Maniac Source: The Maniac
“Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo.” ScienceUniverse Book:When We Cease to Understand the World Source: When We Cease to Understand the World
“I told him that it was better to lose an idea than to lose his life, but he looked at me in a way that made it clear that he saw it the other way round.” IdeasSacrifice Book:The Maniac Source: The Maniac
“Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas.” Chile Book:When We Cease to Understand the World Source: When We Cease to Understand the World
“In spring, when his allergy to pollen became unbearable, he would cover his face with a gas mask (the British government had distributed them throughout the population at the start of the war), sowing panic among those who saw him pass and imagined an attack was imminent.” HumorFunnyHistoryDark HumorAlan Turing Book:When We Cease to Understand the World Source: When We Cease to Understand the World
“No era una vocación como cualquier otra: ser escritor, como ser soldado o samurái, tenía que ver con una postura violenta frente a la realidad, una oposición activa, una resistencia sin compromisos y sin tregua. La normalidad, la rutina, la felicidad eran para los demás, mientras que la vida del escritor servía para acercarse al abismo” Escritor Author:Benjamín Labatut
“En sus charlas regalaba manzanas e higos cultivados en su jardín y advertía sobre el poder destructivo de las ciencias: " los átomos que despedazaron Hiroshima y Nagasaki no fueron separados por los dedos grasientos de un general, sino por un grupo de físicos armados con un puñado de ecuaciones". Grothendieck no podía dejar de cuestionar su efecto sobre el mundo.” Física Book:When We Cease to Understand the World Source: When We Cease to Understand the World
“Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation.” RealityPhysics Book:When We Cease to Understand the World Source: When We Cease to Understand the World
“I told him that things had become so dark and hopeless that I could no longer imagine a future; he smiled at me and softly said that it was precisely then, in the darkest times, when one could see the furthest.” KnowledgeDarknessFuture Book:The Maniac Source: The Maniac