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This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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We make versions, and true versions make worlds. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

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The greatest obstacle to progress in science is the illusion of knowledge. ↗

— Professor Mike Disney Cardiff University

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The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

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So strong was the preconception of absolute space and time in the scientific mentality of those days, that Lorentz did not realize the grand transcendence of what he had discovered, and contented himself with remodeling the edifice of Physics -- instead of rebuilding it with a new foundation. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

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...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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