Wilson, Robert

Sir Robert Wilson (astronomer) is a British astronomer. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your comments or consult wikipedia


"Hedonic Engineering -- The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?"

Wilson, Robert on Engineering
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"The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever."

Wilson, Robert on Freedom
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"Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it."

Wilson, Robert on Intelligence and Intellectuals
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"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."

Wilson, Robert on Arts and Artists
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"No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town."

Wilson, Robert on Self discovery
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"Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence."

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