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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I want to know Carl Sagan too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I can safely say, that to know him, was to love him. And to love him, was to know him. Those who knew him, loved him, while those who did not know him, loved him from afar.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In object oriented onthology, to know is him is to be him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's 2010 hippy mumbo jumbo -- to know his name in an associated-array is more than enough to know it is him

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well ain't that a pickle. It all depends on your knowledge.vs.belief position when it comes to the topic of afterlife.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”

― Nicholas Butler

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

This is a real picture of Sagan, taken right after he memorized the recipe for an apple pie.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Feynman

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

i don'Ł wanŁ Ło beliere

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Honestly pretty aesthetic way to write the 't'. Bet it feels great too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] lmmarsano 12 points 1 month ago

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Source unclear, often attributed to Richard Feynman.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

... and if I can't find the answers, I want to accept what I don't know or will never know

It all goes back to a prayer or mantra I learned a long time ago in addictions recovery

"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference"

There are a lot of old timers and religious people who originally started this with the word 'God' but in recent years, it's been changed by some to allow a less religious connotation. It doesn't mean anyone is less religious, or less spiritual, or better or worse .. it is just an acceptance of things we can't change, having the courage to change when we should and having the wisdom to know the difference.

It's a mantra and a saying that I live by.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I think this is already contained in Stoicism, an important root of Christianity.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Who doesnt know anything, has to believe everything

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is why people preferred Mulder.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Mulder wasn't blind faith, though. Mulder was, "I know I saw some shit and I'm gonna prove it's real."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

How about I want to have my inference process to negate error bound to my priors?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

-- Marcellus Wallace

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was trying to find out what year this was from, hoping for the possibility at least that it was a dunk on X Files. Instead I found totally not automated, manually curated pages like this:

Quote Catalog - https://quotecatalog.com/quote/carl-sagan-i-dont-want-N70xy37/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Is always good thing tho check the sources 👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You can only know that at the present moment a doubting being exists. Anything else is just empirical, and therefore not true knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that nail rotted or maybe it has a fungus? Eww

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

My bet is white level adjustment was done across the entire image rather than “where they wanted it” and fingernail shadows got wild