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Favourite Quotes ( Will be updated constantly)

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Disclaimer: The quotes below doesn't necessarily reflect my view on any topics related to them Martin Luther "Reason is by nature a harmful whore. But she shall not harm me, if I only resist her. Ah, but she is so comely and glittering... See to it that you hold reason in check and do not follow her beautiful cogitations. Throw dirt in her face and make her ugly." Comely= (typically a woman) attractive, pleasant to look at Cogitations= the action of thinking deeply about something; contemplation Dr. Chiba Atsuko /Paprika (From the movie "Paprika") "Don't you think dreams and the internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents." David Wong "There are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and idolizing them." Sir Roger Scruton "An incredibly damaging idea that has spread across the world since the Sixties that 'freedom' means the absence of control rather than ord

Difference Between Inference, Reasoning, Deduction and Resolution

Source: quora.com/what-is-the-difference-between-inference-reasoning-deduction-and-resolution Question: What is the difference between inference, reasoning, deduction, and resolution? Answer by: Vidya Venkat Reason- the capacity for consciously making sense of things, applying logic, establishing and verifying facts, and changing or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information Inference- conclusions drawn from propositions or assumptions that are supposed to be true Deduction- a general-to-specific form of reasoning that goes from known truths to specific instances. It starts with a hypothesis and examines the possibilities within that hypothesis to reach a conclusion. Example, in chemistry deducing a chemical equation basis two or more agents Resolution- anything which brings us to the truth of the knowledge. It is something which eventually is returned to the source and includes sources of knowledge and being

Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan (1994) : A Vision of the Human Future in Space

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelti