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πŸ’¬πŸ“š “As blocked creatives, we focus not on our responsibilities to ourselves, but on our responsibilities to others. We tend to think such behavior makes us good people. It doesn’t. It makes us frustrated people.” Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

πŸ’¬πŸ“š “Do not let your self-doubt turn into self-sabotage.” Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

πŸ’¬πŸ“š “Perhaps people who experience the world in ways that are considered atypical have an intuitive feeling for the limits of typicality.” Ed Yong, An Immense World

πŸ’¬πŸ“š “A scientist’s explanations about other animals are dictated by the data she collects, which are influenced by the questions she asks, which are steered by her imagination, which is limited by her senses.” Ed Yong, An Immense World

Good to remember about all research.

πŸ’¬πŸ“š “[The senses] pull relevance from randomness, and weave meaning from miscellany.” Ed Yong, An Immense World

πŸ“šπŸ’¬ “Animals are not just stand-ins for humans or fodder for brainstorming sessions. They have worth in themselves.” - Ed Yong, An Immense World

πŸ“šπŸ’¬ “It is all that we know, and so we easily mistake it for all there is to know.” Ed Yong, An Immense World

“There’s surviving, and then there’s living.” - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds πŸ––πŸ»πŸ“ΊπŸ’¬

“…anger is counterproductive to puzzle solving. And to problem solving in general.” A. J. Jacobs in The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life

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The TNG episode, “The Masterpiece Society,” is great. πŸ––πŸ»πŸ“ΊπŸ’¬

“It was the wish of our founders that no one have to suffer a life of disabilities.” “Who gave them the right to decide whether or not I might have something to contribute?” - Hannah Bates and La Forge, on eugenics