Celia Green Quotes

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The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

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The object of modern science is to make all aspects of reality equally boring, so that no one will be tempted to think about them.

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There are some things that are sure to go wrong as soon as they stop going right.

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If you say to a theoretical physicist that something is inconceivable, he will reply: "It only appears inconceivable because you are naively trying to conceive it. Stop thinking and all will be well."

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The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus...

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Thinking in words, consciousness is behavior, experiment is measurement.

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If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain... their permission to continue kowtowing.

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One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

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The most exciting thing possible is actually true.

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Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

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People having religions is an insult to the universe.

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When people talk about 'the sanctity of the individual' they mean 'the sanctity of the statistical norm'.

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The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

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It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

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The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

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The fact that something is far-fetched is no reason why it should not be true; it cannot be as far-fetched as the fact that something exists.

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When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

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It used to be regarded as a theological problem that God could be indifferent to the continuance of human suffering. What is really remarkable is that the human race can be.

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Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.

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In the universe there is room for an infinite series of beginnings.

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It is when the commercial factor enters into the situation that the possibility of genuine individual liberty arises.

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I have long had a theory that the popularity of Christianity has always depended on its appeal to the sadism of its adherents. The exceptional should be crucified, saith Society; and somehow everyone suspects (in spite of all arguments to the contrary) that if there is a God, he may be exceptional in some way. So the figure of Christ crucified becomes the figure of the dangerous exceptional alien—suitably defeated. 'Only a suffering God can help', said Bonhoeffer, licking his lips.

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What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events. These equations are, we would argue, the only realities we can be certain of in physics; any other ways we have of thinking about the situation are visual aids or mnemonics which make it easier for beings with our sort of macroscopic experience to use and remember the equations.

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You can never possess anything finite; that only leaves the infinite.

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The human race believes in not taking its problems seriously enough to solve them.

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