The human capacity for self-delusion is apparently infinite – and if that is the case, how are we ever meant to know, except by existing in a state of absolute pessimism, that once again we are fooling ourselves? Outline
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Quote:- The human digestive tract is like the Amtrak line from Seattle to Los Angeles: transit time is about thirty hours, and the scenery on the last leg is pretty monotonous.
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Author:- Mary Roach
Category:- science
Quote:- The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed;The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Author:- Charlotte Brontë
Category:- best
Quote:- The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
Author:- Stephen Jay Gould
Category:- science
Quote:- The human mind is an incredible thing. It can conceive of the magnificence of the heavens and the intricacies of the basic components of matter. Yet for each mind to achieve its full potential, it needs a spark. The spark of enquiry and wonder.Often that spark comes from a teacher. Allow me to explain. I wasn’t the easiest person to teach, I was slow to learn to read and my handwriting was untidy. But when I was fourteen my teacher at my school in St Albans, Dikran Tahta, showed me how to harness my energy and encouraged me to think creatively about mathematics. He opened my eyes to maths as the blueprint of the universe itself. If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher. When each of us thinks about what we can do in life, chances are we can do it because of a teacher.
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Author:- Stephen Hawking
Category:- science
Quote:- The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.
Author:- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Category:- best
Quote:- The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.
Author:- Stephen Hawking
Category:- science
Quote:- The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.
Author:- Victor Hugo
Category:- hope
Quote:- The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.
Author:- C.S. Lewis
Category:- time
Quote:- The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul.
The Cloudspotter's Guide
Author:- Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Category:- science
Quote:- The idea of happiness is great but most people exaggerate the sense and accomplishments of happiness.
Author:- Ankit Samrat
Category:- Life
Quote:- The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow – Hope shining upon the tears of grief.
Author:- Robert G. Ingersoll
Category:- hope
Quote:- The idea of mathematics having an ontology is the very last idea science would ever accept since its acceptance would instantly falsify science and require its replacement by ontological mathematics. Doesn’t it alarm you that science deliberately seeks to reject the very thing – mathematics – on which it is 100% reliant?
Universals Versus Particulars: The Ultimate Intellectual War
Author:- David Sinclair
Category:- science
Quote:- The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
Time and Free Will
Author:- Henri Bergson
Category:- time,hope
Quote:- The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
Author:- Carl Sagan
Category:- science
Quote:- The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion.
Author:- Gareth J. Nelson
Category:- science
Quote:- The idea that we are better off with one person for the rest of our lives is not an innate truth of existence. It's a belief we want to be true. Forfeiting solitude and independence is a much greater sacrifice than most of us realize. Sharing a habitat, a life, is for sure harder than being alone. In fact, coupled living seems virtually impossible, doesn't it? To find another person to spend all your life with, to age with and change with, to see every day, to respond to their moods and needs?
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Author:- Iain Reid
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Author:- Sherry Turkle
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
Author:- Alfred North Whitehead
Category:- science