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Government succeeds by failing.


L.K. Samuels


#complexity-science #economics #politics #science

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.


Terry Pratchett


#quantum-physics #schrodinger-s-cat #wisdom #acting

The four stages of acceptance: 1. This is worthless nonsense. 2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view. 3. This is true, but quite unimportant. 4. I always said so." (Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)


J.B.S. Haldane


#dispute #haldane #opportunism #science #self-contradiction

There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain things and cope with the attendant moral problems. The things simply get done by the social machine, and one can keep one's clear conscience and one's moral indignation unsullied.


John Fraser


#criticism #morality #philosophy #theory #art

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila


Mark Salzman


#dreams

Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?


J.R.R. Tolkien


#theoden #tolkien #spring

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.


David Lewis-Williams


#hypothesis #science #theory #art

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.


Thomas Sowell


#hubris #identity

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.


Dietrich Bonhoeffer


#church

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.


C.S. Lewis


#metaphysics #nonsense #questioning-mind #questions #theology






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