Robin Ince

The Importance of Being Interested

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  • Мариhas quoted2 years ago
    for a democracy to be a democracy, it is vital to have access to information and the ability to understand what it means.
  • Мариhas quoted2 years ago
    Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
    ALBERT EINSTEIN
  • b4964814923has quoted2 years ago
    Iwould love to be certain, to be sure of something, but my anxiety makes that unlikely
  • b4964814923has quoted2 years ago
    Cancel your travel plans; you can simply stare at all the atoms that you have at home; they may well form something magnificent one day, so enjoy them while they take the shape of your desk-tidy or pan-scourer.
  • b4964814923has quoted2 years ago
    Questions can be seen as impertinent and dangerous. You may lose everything you hold dear – your god, your afterlife, your free will, your feeling of superiority, your mind… even your entire reality. Knowledge can be framed as loss rather than gain. It is a quandary I have been dealing with for the last fifteen years
  • Мариhas quoted2 years ago
    Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
    GEORGE CARLIN
  • Мариhas quoted2 years ago
    One of Richard’s favourite poems is ‘The More Loving One’ by W. H. Auden, from which he takes that the universe is without purpose or agency, but that it is where we discovered love.
  • Мариhas quoted2 years ago
    He tells me about the Caledonian Antisyzygies (which is now your new best Scrabble word, as long as someone already has ‘ant’ on the board. A long shot, I know). This is the presence of two polarities within an individual. Richard feels as if he is both an atheist and a theist, in a state of disjunction living on a boundary.
  • Мариhas quoted2 years ago
    Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
    Voltaire
  • Мариhas quoted2 years ago
    A scientist’s pessimistic realism is often the most coherent and quotable way of accessing their work, but after the humdrum, after the ‘cold and indifferent’, comes a big BUT…
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