Nature

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau · Walden, Ch. 2 · 1854 · read

Subjectivity

Order is in the eye of the beholder.
Carlo Rovelli · The Order of Time · 2017 · book

A Sense of Self-Doubt & Humor

Phoebe → Ross Is there even a teeny, tiny possibility you could be wrong?
Friends, S2 E3 · The One Where Heckles Dies · 1995 · episode
A beautiful theory is not, for that reason, a true one. The aesthetic and the correct are different things.
Roger Penrose & Brian Cox · Institute of Art & Ideas · May 2026 · conversation
Here's to a lousy Christmas.
And a crappy New Year.
Friends, S1 E9 · The One Where Underdog Gets Away · 1994 · scene
This is an exciting era.
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
Alan Kay · Xerox PARC · 1971 · attribution
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