Stephen Fry about philosophy and atheism
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The adverb is not your friend.
— Stephen King on writing (via explore-blog)
Reblogged from Explore
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Betteridge's law of headlines
Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states, “Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
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There was a time when “universe meant ‘all there is.’ Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything, would seemingly be a contradiction in terms. Yet a range of theoretical developments has gradually qualified the interpretation of ‘universe’. The word’s meaning now depends on context. Sometimes ‘universe’ still connotes absolutely everything. Sometimes it refers only to those parts of everything that someone such as you or I could, in principle, have access to. Sometimes it’s applied to separate realms, ones that are partly or fully, temporarily or permanently, inaccessible to us; in this sense, the world relegates our universe to membership in a large, perhaps infinitely large, collection.
— The Hidden Reality - Brain Greene
(Source: electricspacekoolaid)
Reblogged from sagan|sense
“Awesome” is not a philosophical landmine. If someone encounters the word “right”, all sorts of bad philosophy and connotations send them spinning off into the existential void. “Awesome”, on the other hand, has no philospohical respectability, hence no philosophical baggage.
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