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- We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every…
- We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.
- No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring…
- [John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly…
- But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude…
- Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else…
- The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very…
- Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds:…
- All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are surely mistaken. I…
- A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting…
- By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do…
- Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
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