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So you have to learn how to admit you’re wrong, over and over and over again. It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s so hard that most people can’t do science. Always questioning yourself, always taking another look at things you’ve always taken for granted.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Organisms whose cells have a nucleus are called eucaryotes (from the Greek words eu, meaning “well” or “truly,” and karyon, a “kernel” or “nucleus”). Organisms whose cells do not have a nucleus are called procaryotes (from pro, meaning “before”). The terms “bacterium” and “procaryote” are often used interchangeably, although we shall see that the category of procaryotes also includes another class of cells, the archaea (singular archaeon), which are so remotely related to bacteria that they are given a separate name.
Essential Cell Biology
Bruce Alberts; Dennis Bray; Karen Hopkin; Alexander Johnson; Julian Lewis; Martin Raff; Keith Robert...
For here is a man who actually identifies evil with pain and good with pleasure, thus making a mockery of all our attempts to establish moral standards, a man who declares we are just wasting our time and uttering mere meaningless sounds, since nothing is really ofthe slightest significance except pleasant or unpleasant physical sensations.
On the Good Life
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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