Delusion Quote by Peter David Download Open image “Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.” — Peter David ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delusion Grandeur Magic Science
Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic. — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
“People who needed magic to explain science were simply not appreciative of the everyday magic of reality.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high… — Peter David Copy Share Image
Why (he wondered rhetorically) do people who have a position that's being attacked constantly state that they have a right to say it, as… — Peter David Copy Share Image
“In fairness to the Almighty, though, it should be noted that lack of attention from God is not necessarily a bad thing, as the… — Peter David Copy Share Image
Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter. — Peter David Copy Share Image
I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling when or… — Peter David Copy Share Image
“These, of course, are far more enlightened times, when it is only acceptable to believe that not being a Christian is likely to mean… — Peter David Copy Share Image
“From the look of things, in five minutes every building facing the square would be locked up tighter than a Romulan clam.” — Peter David Copy Share Image
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most… — Peter David Copy Share Image
“Not that he wanted to say that. It would make it sound as if he wanted to blame her.. Women were very complicated creatures.… — Peter David Copy Share Image
“This famed orphan of the storm tended to bob about as helplessly as a cork (embracing the cliché in order to maintain the metaphor)… — Peter David Copy Share Image
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“we shouldn’t surrender our real world perception to a false reality too much or we may suffer the inevitable consequences of deluded thinking. Technology… — M.P. Neary Copy Share Image
Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so many issues… — Jeremy Shearmur Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Someone who has the delusion Glass, is made of, does not literally believe herself to be made of glass but rather feels fragile and… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image