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"Kind of amazing how this book was written in 1915 and the politically illiterate characters spend a couple of pages toward the start parroting the right wing press' view on "the fissical policy", and how it's supposedly going to stop immigrants from taking our jobs. Yep, they had a Brexit debate 101 years before Brexit. Nothing new under the sun." — Jul 06, 2023 12:58PM
"Kind of amazing how this book was written in 1915 and the politically illiterate characters spend a couple of pages toward the start parroting the right wing press' view on "the fissical policy", and how it's supposedly going to stop immigrants from taking our jobs. Yep, they had a Brexit debate 101 years before Brexit. Nothing new under the sun." — Jul 06, 2023 12:58PM
“If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.”
― Fever Pitch
― Fever Pitch
“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.
The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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