Attraction Quote by Anthony Standen

The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of light. It…

— Anthony Standen

The really important questions in human life are hardly touched upon by psychologists. Do liars come to believe their own lies? Is pleasure the…

— Anthony Standen

If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists… Most of these people are incapable of…

— Anthony Standen

Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.

— Anthony Standen

Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance,…

— Anthony Standen

But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull… Everything has…

— Anthony Standen

A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of feline digital…

— Anthony Standen

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not…

— Anthony Standen

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

— Anthony Standen

Chemists are, on the whole, like physicists, only 'less so'.They don't make quite the same wonderful mistakes, and much what they do is an…

— Anthony Standen

The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness… For physics is not about the real world, it is about "abstractions"…

— Anthony Standen

If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve…

— Anthony Standen