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Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.
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Did ever the history of the intellect so little conceal so much?
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No one is so brilliant that he can afford to neglect what history can teach him.
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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.
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Science does not begin with facts; one of its tasks is to uncover the facts by removing misconceptions.
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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.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Lancelot Law Whyte
Born:
1896
Died:
1972
(aged 76)
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