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Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which read more
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.
However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.
However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.
If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, read more
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, ''Keep tomorrow dark,'' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) ''Cheat the Prophet.'' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human read more
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves:
the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of read more
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves:
the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
