I want to know.
from MattW03@lemmy.ca to science_memes@mander.xyz on 15 Feb 22:31
https://lemmy.ca/post/39186162

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fossilesque@mander.xyz on 15 Feb 22:38 next collapse

I want to know Carl Sagan too.

sbv@sh.itjust.works on 15 Feb 23:01 next collapse

In the biblical sense?

dingus@lemmy.world on 16 Feb 03:23 next collapse

Giggity

Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works on 16 Feb 03:23 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c2182203-5220-4fdd-8142-13a0ac6d39de.jpeg">

I can safely say, that to know him, was to love him. And to love him, was to know him. Those who knew him, loved him, while those who did not know him, loved him from afar.

alzymologist@sopuli.xyz on 16 Feb 11:27 collapse

In object oriented onthology, to know is him is to be him.

tetris11@lemmy.ml on 16 Feb 18:55 collapse

That’s 2010 hippy mumbo jumbo – to know his name in an associated-array is more than enough to know it is him

saltesc@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 23:10 collapse

Well ain’t that a pickle. It all depends on your knowledge.vs.belief position when it comes to the topic of afterlife.

Gloria@sh.itjust.works on 15 Feb 23:03 next collapse

Who doesnt know anything, has to believe everything

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca on 15 Feb 23:22 next collapse

… and if I can’t find the answers, I want to accept what I don’t know or will never know

It all goes back to a prayer or mantra I learned a long time ago in addictions recovery

“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference”

There are a lot of old timers and religious people who originally started this with the word ‘God’ but in recent years, it’s been changed by some to allow a less religious connotation. It doesn’t mean anyone is less religious, or less spiritual, or better or worse … it is just an acceptance of things we can’t change, having the courage to change when we should and having the wisdom to know the difference.

It’s a mantra and a saying that I live by.

oce@jlai.lu on 16 Feb 00:46 collapse

I think this is already contained in Stoicism, an important root of Christianity.

NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee on 15 Feb 23:46 next collapse

This is why people preferred Mulder.

turtlepower@lemm.ee on 15 Feb 23:51 collapse

Mulder wasn’t blind faith, though. Mulder was, “I know I saw some shit and I’m gonna prove it’s real.”

JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee on 15 Feb 23:49 next collapse

You can only know that at the present moment a doubting being exists. Anything else is just empirical, and therefore not true knowledge.

sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip on 15 Feb 23:50 next collapse

This is a real picture of Sagan, taken right after he memorized the recipe for an apple pie.

Hylactor@sopuli.xyz on 16 Feb 02:16 next collapse

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”

― Nicholas Butler

mindbleach@sh.itjust.works on 16 Feb 03:49 next collapse

– Marcellus Wallace

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com on 16 Feb 04:23 next collapse

I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

Source unclear, often attributed to Richard Feynman.

dragonfucker@lemmy.nz on 16 Feb 05:46 next collapse

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Feynman

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 16 Feb 11:11 next collapse

i don’Ł wanŁ Ło beliere

JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org on 17 Feb 00:28 next collapse

Honestly pretty aesthetic way to write the ‘t’. Bet it feels great too.

Hupf@feddit.org on 17 Feb 16:55 collapse

U+237C

alzymologist@sopuli.xyz on 16 Feb 11:31 next collapse

How about I want to have my inference process to negate error bound to my priors?

monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world on 16 Feb 11:59 next collapse

Is that nail rotted or maybe it has a fungus? Eww

prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works on 16 Feb 12:58 collapse

My bet is white level adjustment was done across the entire image rather than “where they wanted it” and fingernail shadows got wild

ryedaft@sh.itjust.works on 16 Feb 18:42 collapse

I was trying to find out what year this was from, hoping for the possibility at least that it was a dunk on X Files. Instead I found totally not automated, manually curated pages like this:

Quote Catalog - quotecatalog.com/…/carl-sagan-i-dont-want-N70xy37…

MattW03@lemmy.ca on 16 Feb 20:34 collapse

Is always good thing tho check the sources 👍