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The Difference Between Curiosity and Wonder and How It Shaped the Science vs. Scripture Divide
The Difference Between Curiosity and Wonder and How It Shaped the Science vs. Scripture Divide

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Francis Bacon on the Dark Side of Curiosity and the Vanity of Knowledge
Francis Bacon on the Dark Side of Curiosity and the Vanity of Knowledge

“Knowledge may not be as a courtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain to her master’s use; but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort.”

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Prospero’s Precepts: 11 Rules for Critical Thinking from Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds
Prospero’s Precepts: 11 Rules for Critical Thinking from Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds

To be or not to be certain — an exercise in the art and science of doubt.

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Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

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Iconic Painter Agnes Martin on Art, Solitude, and the Secret of Happiness
Iconic Painter Agnes Martin on Art, Solitude, and the Secret of Happiness

“Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.”

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Henry Miller on the Joy of Urination
Henry Miller on the Joy of Urination

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The True Science of Parallel Universes, Animated
The True Science of Parallel Universes, Animated

Choose-your-own-adventure realities, black holes, and other cosmic escapism.

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How Abraham Maslow and His Humanistic Psychology Shaped the Modern Self
How Abraham Maslow and His Humanistic Psychology Shaped the Modern Self

What 1960s counterculture had to do with the timeless quest for self-actualization.

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The Mortality Paradox
The Mortality Paradox

“Our overblown intellectual faculties seem to be telling us both that we are eternal and that we are not.”

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Henry Miller on the Meaning and Mystery of Life
Henry Miller on the Meaning and Mystery of Life

“This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can’t grasp it.”

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