“Not only this- the mirror test also presupposes that the tested animals care about their appearance in one way or another, for something like this is necessary for them to have the motivation to interact with the mark that has been placed on them. However, it’s not immediately clear that other animals are vain enough to care about their own looks.”
Source: Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
“Have we learned, for instance, how to take -but not too much? And what's too much?”
Source: Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge
“Risen apes, not fallen angels,
Still stumbling hither and thither,
Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?
Doesn't matter as long as we have each other”
Source: In Search of Starlight
“Recount science with wise. If you tell it to ignorant, it is like a stack of hay blown by storm.”
“La vida es una Delta de Dirac. Todo fue muy rápido, cuando abrí los ojos ya estaba muerto.”
Source: Jesusito
“In the seventeenth century it was fashionable to regard the universe as a gigantic machine that had been set in motion by God. Even today, many people like to believe in God’s role as a Prime Mover or First Cause in a cosmic chain of causation. But what does it mean for a God who is outside of time to cause anything? Because of this difficulty, believers in a timeless God prefer to emphasize his role in upholding and sustaining the creation at every moment of its existence. No distinction is drawn between creation and preservation: both are, to God’s timeless eyes, one and the same action.”
Source: The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World
“Belief in a divine being who starts the universe off and then “sits back” to watch events unfold, taking no direct part in subsequent affairs, is known as “deism.” Here God’s nature is captured by the image of the perfect watchmaker, a sort of cosmic engineer, who designs and constructs a vast and elaborate mechanism and then sets it going.”
Source: The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World
“An eternal universe is incompatible with the continuing existence of irreversible physical processes.”
Source: The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World
“Quantum physics, the study of the universe at its most
minute level, unveils a startlingly different picture from
what today’s hyper-materialist humans so glibly dub reality.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.”
Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist