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Andrea McAts
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‘They were miserable and hungry and helpless. I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who was miserable, hungry and helpless who was not also petty and selfish. The situation brings out the worst in everyone.’
“Out-of-date theories are not in principle unscientific because they have been discarded. That”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.”
― Blood of Dragons
― Blood of Dragons
“The Irish for seagull is faoileán, which is often translated literally as wolf bird.”
― Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language
― Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language
“The extremely useful word athghnó is work you do that wasn’t done properly the first time.”
― Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language
― Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language
“Observation and experience can and must drastically restrict the range of admissible scientific belief, else there would be no science. But they cannot alone determine a particular body of such belief. An apparently arbitrary element, compounded of personal and historical accident, is always a formative ingredient of the beliefs espoused by a given scientific community at a given time.”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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