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Science is all
metaphor.
-- Timothy Leary
1921-1996, American Actor
The future of
humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous
countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I
believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely
large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end
of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring
in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this
period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.
-- Primo Levi
1919-1987, Italian Chemist,
Author
The scientific
mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the
right questions.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss
1908-, French Anthropologist
Science is the
systematic classification of experience.
-- George Henry Lewes
1817-1878, British Writer
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The
puritanical potentialities of science have never been
forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is
established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things
more than anything else will be done in the name of
''decency.'' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the
consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white
fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will
be the first things attended to.
-- Wyndham Lewis
1882-1957, British Author,
Painter
When we say
''science'' we can either mean any manipulation of the
inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we
can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion
of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure
activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great
religious and political weapon.
-- Wyndham Lewis
1882-1957, British Author,
Painter
The most
heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the
slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made
very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this
defect.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist,
Satirist
There is no
greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the
desire to see it take place too quickly.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist,
Satirist
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