#heirs

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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#ashamed #even #evolved #human #imaginative

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. ↗

— Edgard Varese

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#ahead #artist #behind #far #his

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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#am #ancestors #cultural #derive #feeling