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“It is imperative in science to doubt; it is absolutely necessary, for progress in science, to have uncertainty as a fundamental part of your inner nature. To make progress in understanding, we must remain modest and allow that we do not know. Nothing is certain or proved beyond all doubt. You investigate for curiosity, because it is unknown, not because you know the answer. And as you develop more information in the sciences, it is not that you are finding out the truth, but that you are finding out that this or that is more or less likely. That is, if we investigate further, we find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known to different degrees of certainty… Every one of the concepts of science is on a scale graduated somewhere between, but at neither end of, absolute falsity or absolute truth.” Richard Feynman

"Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt." "Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride." "Maybe that's enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom is realising how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go." "Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have." "Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it."                                                   ...

"Eso de extrañar, la nostalgia y todo eso, es un verso. No se extraña un país, se extraña el barrio en todo caso, pero también lo extrañás si te mudás a diez cuadras. El que se siente patriota, el que cree que pertenece a un país, es un tarado mental. ¡La patria es un invento! ¿Qué tengo que ver yo con un tucumano o con un salteño? Son tan ajenos a mí como un catalán o un portugués. Una estadística, un número sin cara. Uno se siente parte de muy poca gente; tu país son tus amigos, y eso sí se extraña, pero se pasa" 

AWESOME -- die from within disgusting pig House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) avoided total humiliation in wriggling out of the president’s order to take what he knew would be a losing vote on the American Health Care Act. That he had to go, whip list in hand, to the White House, tells us how far he has been reduced in stature by this process. In refusing to take a vote that apparently would not even have been close, Ryan at least avoided unnecessarily putting his own members at risk (e.g., moderates who were asked to take unpopular votes, conservatives who would disappoint the hard-edged Heritage Action and other groups working against the bill). He also retained a smidgen of his own stature. Had he gone forward he would have effectively forfeited Congress’s standing as a co-equal branch of government. Ryan will remain speaker because no one else wants the job, but in a sense he does not “lead” the House Republicans, let alone the House. He is continuously caught in the...

The wisdom and humility of the most meticulous scientist I've met.  To, you, Rock.  G

Los elefantes saben descansar van a morir de paz. un elefante sabe como aquel, el creador de la tierra y el sol y si es que ves como se extiende si ves como se resignan a olvidar su inexplicable soledad seras como ellos, te podran contar los cuentos mas extranos pero no te apuraras. Los elefantes saben olvidar miralos como estan, mira su largas trompas sin razon; como huelen todo lo que esta. Y si es que ves.... Un elefante anda por aqui vamos a verlo andar, mientras sea un elefante hasta el final no tendras que entender Y tendras calma, tendras la calma, Y tendras... una blanca calma una blanca, una blanca calma una blanca, blanca calma. Luis Alberto Spinetta