The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
But who could resist the erotic lives of atoms and molecules - the violent passion of electrostatic attractions, the comfortable mutuality of covalent bonds, the gentle air kisses of van der Waals for...
Le voy a decir algo que no le va a gustar: una crisis no es una oportunidad.
I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that hard work was the secret of success: Work hard and you'll get ahead or It's hard work that got us where we are. No one ever said that you...
I was an answer-seeking machine, in love with what I called the truth, whether it came in the form of little truth particles stuck to the pages of books or vast patterns screaming out from the obvious...
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
Way before puberty, before the journal, before the formulation of my life’s mission, when I must have been eight or younger, I had a rule: Think in complete sentences. No giving way to inner screams o...
The scientific argument [...] is that the attribution of agency to the natural world was a mistake, although a useful one in an evolutionary sense. [...] [T]o the contrary, [...] it was the notion of...
Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions....
However we resolve the issue in our individual homes, the moral challenge is, put simply, to make work visible again: not only the scrubbing and vacuuming, but all the hoeing, stacking, hammering, dri...
Just now and then, maybe every few weeks and then only for minutes at a time, a breach appeared in the partition and I walked on through, because I have always taken that as a general rule of life: If...
Tengo demasiada información y me falta ingenuidad
As Eckhart, one of Otto's many sources, had asserted centuries earlier, referring to the Other as God, the religious seeker must set aside any idea about God as being good, wise, [or] compassionate.
Si te basta con una foto chula y una frasecita para motivarte, es que tienes un trabajo muy fácil… uno de esos que dentro de poco harán los robots.
Something is wrong, very wrong, when a single person in good health, a person who in addition possesses a working car, can barely support herself by the sweat of her brow. You don’t need a degree in e...
Mundo del pensamiento positivo, los demás no están ahí para que los cuidemos, ni para darnos baños de realidad que no les hemos pedido. Solo tienen sentido si nos animan, nos aplauden y nos reafirman....
The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility of a nonhuman agent or agents, some mysterious Other, intervening in my life, c...
In fact, if you're not prepared to die when you're almost sixty, then I would say you've been falling down on your philosophical responsibilities as a grown-up human being.
The advice that you must change your environment—for example, by eliminating negative people and news—is an admission that there may in fact be a real world out there that is utterly unaffected by our...
The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.
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