"There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason)."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Torbjorn Tannsjo

#Pain Quotes #Believe Quotes #Moral Quotes

“All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.”
“At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.”
“It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.”
“If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?”
“Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.”
“Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.”

Source : Katherine Ellison (2006). “The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter”, p.128, Basic Books
“Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.”

Source : "A scientist by choice". Speech by acceptance of the Kyoto Prize, 1991.
“I remember how difficult it was to perform certain operations on gelatine prints. A few weeks ago I asked my gelatine printer at Picto, "Can you make just the shadows a little bit brighter?" He gave me a very strange look because in Photoshop you just turn a button, and we're used to that now, but it is totally impossible in gelatine silver printing.”

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