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Robert M. Pirsig
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You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other.

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(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness). Familiarity can blind you too.

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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient; Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

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The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know.

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I'm looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.

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Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the centre of it all.

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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?
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