"There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms."

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Source : "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, February 28, 2010 - March 14, 2015.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Answers Quotes #Mysterious Quotes #Contradiction Quotes

“To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.”
“If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.”
“My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.”
“A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.”
“You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day.”
“No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
“I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained.”

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