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Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

Lancelot Law Whyte
Did ever the history of the intellect so little conceal so much?

Lancelot Law Whyte
No one is so brilliant that he can afford to neglect what history can teach him.

Lancelot Law Whyte
We are sick today for lack of simple ideas which can help us be what we want to be.

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Theory confronts experiment, and both sides are a mixture of obscurity and clarity.

Lancelot Law Whyte
Science does not begin with facts; one of its tasks is to uncover the facts by removing misconceptions.

Lancelot Law Whyte
We are indeed a blind race, and the next generation, blind to its own blindness, will be amazed at ours.

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In the ultimate analysis science is born of myth and religion, all three being expressions of the ordering spirit of the human mind.

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Atomism originally stood for iconoclasm, impiety, and atheism, because the Greek atomists conceived a universe under the reign of chance.

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Science starts with an assumption which is always present, though it may be unconscious, may be forgotten, and may sometimes even be denied.

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To rob man of his noblest faculty, the experience of and aspiration to perfection and unity in himself, we can now see to have been a truly hellish surgery.

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Nothing is more surprising than the surprises of history, and nothing more untrustworthy than the uncritical extrapolation of the tendencies of the recent past.

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The true aim of science is to discover a simple theory which is necessary and sufficient to cover the facts, when they have been purified of traditional prejudices.

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A clue to the future must lie in the past... every scientist, and everyone with intellectual curiosity, can learn something useful from a brief study of the history of atomism.

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The Christian fog of self deception still does its damage: we either deceive ourselves by pretending to believe or overreact into a contempt of all religion. So, away with the fog!

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If the universe is a mingling of probability clouds spread through a cosmic eternity of space-time, how is there as much order, persistence, and coherent transformation as there is?

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Belief in a transcendental divinity arose from a misinterpretation of intimations from the less conscious levels of the mind.... God is in the unconscious, is the unconscious, perhaps.

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There are good reasons to expect... a return to a concreteness of basic ideas, to simpler fundamentals easily understood, to principles that will bring exact science closer to the human perspective.

Lancelot Law Whyte