• Hylactor@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

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

    ― Nicholas Butler

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    4 days ago

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

  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

    Source unclear, often attributed to Richard Feynman.

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      3 days ago

      Is always good thing tho check the sources 👍

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    … 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.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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      I think this is already contained in Stoicism, an important root of Christianity.

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

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

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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      My bet is white level adjustment was done across the entire image rather than “where they wanted it” and fingernail shadows got wild