“We do not necessarily progress or improve as a human race alongside the leaps and bounds of science and knowledge.” — Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind
Tag: science
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“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.” — John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice Volume 3 (of 3)
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“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found.” — Robert Oppenheimer, “Space and Time,” The Flying Trapeze
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“Try to keep in mind one of the fundamental aspects of science: letting the evidence form belief rather than belief select evidence.” — Greg Craven, What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
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“One has to immerse oneself in the threatening possibilities offered by modern science and technology, and try to swim to the other end of the pool.” — J.G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85, the Paris Review (Winter 1984)
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“’Change’ is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.” — Bertrand Russell, Philosophy and Politics
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“Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.” — Raymond Chandler, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” — Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Questions
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“There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts.” — Vladimir Nabokov, Interview by Alfred Appel, Jr
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“Knowledge—it excites prejudices to call it science—is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table