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El Principe

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Niccolò Machiavelli

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“Cada que escucho caer un trueno, mi corazón se acelera de manera desesperada y corro a ocultarme debajo de mis cobijas. Es totalmente absurdo creer que un par de edredones podrán protejerme de una fuerza mayor, pero es en ese momento, mientras trato de alargar el lapso de tiempo entre un trueno y el siguiente, es ese el preciso momento dónde siempre encuentro alguna manera de consolarme y decirme a mi misma que todo esta bien. De todos modos soy lo suficientemente grande para saber que no debería tener miedo. Entonces escucho ese sonido de nuevo y todo se repite.”

“I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.”

“One of the strategies which atheists adopt is proving the non-existence of God by demonstrating that He is not divine. ‘There is so much bad happening in this world, if God is out there would he allow all of that?’ It is a fallacy. A true atheist doesn’t want to prove that God is evil. A true atheist should, instead, prove God doesn’t exist at all.”