What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments … - Rebecca Goldstein

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It wasn't until Hope fluttered over and landed at Alex's feet, peering questioningly up at him, that he finally tore his hands away from his eyes. Oh, my God, he said, sounding disgusted. Why is there a bird looking at me?That's Miss Oliviera's bird, Henry volunteered cheerfully. The captain gave it to her as a present. Kayla punched me in the arm. John's got his captain's license? she whispered. You are so lucky. Frank says he just loads cargo. I glanced at Frank. I wondered if Kayla would like him as much if she knew the cargo he loaded was human souls.

Rebecca Goldstein

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?

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Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters. And who matters is a function of what matters. [If] what matters is intelligence, the people who matter are the intelligent, and the people who matter the most, the heroes, are the geniuses.

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Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.

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To matter, to mind. . . . What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. . . . Can anyone truthfully say, I don't matter and I don't mind?

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Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

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Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

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