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“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

Author YahooeyPosted on February 27, 2022February 26, 2022Categories QuotationsTags Derren Brown, knowledge, progress, scienceLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.” — John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice Volume 3 (of 3)

Author YahooeyPosted on April 24, 2021April 23, 2021Categories QuotationsTags appearances, demonstrations, facts, impressions, John Ruskin, scienceLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found.

“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found.” — Robert Oppenheimer, “Space and Time,” The Flying Trapeze

Author YahooeyPosted on July 25, 2020July 22, 2020Categories QuotationsTags deep things, necessary truth, profound truth, Robert Oppenheimer, science, The Flying TrapezeLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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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.

“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?

Author YahooeyPosted on July 18, 2020July 15, 2020Categories QuotationsTags beliefs, evidence, Greg Craven, science, What's the Worst That Could HappenLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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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.

“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)

Author YahooeyPosted on April 27, 2020April 22, 2020Categories QuotationsTags J.G. Ballard, science, technologyLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

“’Change’ is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.” — Bertrand Russell, Philosophy and Politics

Author YahooeyPosted on January 7, 2019December 29, 2018Categories QuotationsTags Bertrand Russell, change, controversy, ethics, opinion, Philosophy and Politics, progress, science2 Comments on Quote of the Day

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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.

“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

Author YahooeyPosted on January 24, 2017January 11, 2017Categories QuotationsTags art, folklore, quackery, Raymond Chandler, science, The Notebooks of Raymond ChandlerLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

“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

Author YahooeyPosted on September 25, 2016October 18, 2019Categories QuotationsTags Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions, knowledge, science, wisdomLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts.

“There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts.” — Vladimir Nabokov, Interview by Alfred Appel, Jr

Author YahooeyPosted on October 12, 2015January 1, 2020Categories QuotationsTags art, facts, Interview by Alfred Appel Jr, science, Vladimir NabokovLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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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.

“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

Author YahooeyPosted on October 1, 2015January 18, 2020Categories QuotationsTags knowledge, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., science, The Poet at the Breakfast TableLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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