Tag: musings
People are forgotten…
People are forgotten. Eventually no one remembers you. Hotel Silence, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir.
About knowledge…
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking
Love Is All We Have Left
Now you’re at the other end of the telescope. Seven billion stars in her eyes. So many stars. So many ways of seeing. Hey, this is no time not to be alive. Love Is All We Have Left, U2
London winter fair (2), or belated new year’s musings…
Here goes a small gallery of pictures I took a bit more than a year ago, in winter wonderland fair, here in London. I’ve been already a few times here, my daughter enjoys it, and we like to do a bit of ice skating. Well, she does it, I just slide carefully on the ice…
To my imaginary friends (3)
I always wanted to live in London. Almost since I remember. Life made me delay my decision about moving. After university in Madrid I started working in video games, I got married, we had a daughter. The idea of moving to UK, particularly London, was still there, but somehow it was not a priority. Some day…
To my imaginary friends (2).
Just think a bit about what has happened last weeks in London. Now just think in a different way as you may usually do. Let’s just call things with a different name, and ask some (really silly) questions. There are people, who claim being in some kind of special relationship with a very powerful imaginary…
I would rather have questions…
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned. ― Richard Feynman
The hypothesis of God…
The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and explain every phenomenon away on the basis of that system. An approach like that doesn’t require any knowledge. Just a few memorized formulas plus so-called intuition and…
About science and knowledge.
Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are…