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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter … Continue reading

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There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in “cargo cult science.” It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty — a kind of leaning over backwards. … Continue reading

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One can judge from experiment, or one can blindly accept authority. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all important and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, … Continue reading

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The Solution by Bertolt Brecht After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writer’s Union Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back … Continue reading

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We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world. –Neil Gaiman, Signal to Noise Send to Kindle

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Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to cast the old aside. –Alexander Pope Send to Kindle

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In the history of human thought science has often come out of superstition. Astronomy came out of astrology. Chemistry came out of alchemy. What will come out of economics? –what Peter Berger tells us was the first paragraph of Bernard … Continue reading

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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows … Continue reading

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The artistic temperament is a disease which afflicts amateurs. –G. K. Chesterton Success as a writer does not come from genius, talent or inspiration. It comes from attention to craft: to learning how to write. It comes from consistent work … Continue reading

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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions? –Robert A. Heinlein Send to Kindle

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