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Negative capability: capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
Reality Hunger
David Shields
Three million years ago Australopithecus afarensis had a brain volume of less than 500 cm3; 1.5 million years ago the volume had doubled in Homo erectus, and then it increased by roughly 50% in Homo sapiens (Leonard, Snodgrass, and Robertson 2007).
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
She taps her temple. “If you want to understand the world, you have to start by understanding—truly understanding—how we experience it.” Slade nods, says, “ ‘It is evident the mind does not know things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them.’
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