Essence of Science

“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.”  ― Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man 

Anxious Generation

  "We are overprotective in the real world, and underprotective in the digital world." - Jonathan Haidt

Our Uniqueness

  "Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one." - Martin Heidegger

Free Will and the Past

"You will change your mind, but you are not free.
Your moment of freedom was yesterday.
You made a decision. You set in motion
Forces in your life and in the lives of others
Which cannot be reversed. That is one consideration.
And another is this: it is a serious matter
To bring someone back from the dead."

-T.S. Eliot (in the play The Cocktail Party)

Habits

 "People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures." - F.M. Alexander

Chekhov on Trust

 "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible." --Russian playwright Anton Chekhov

Kierkegaard on Life

 "Is it perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards." -Soren Kierkegaard