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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
by Thomas Henry Huxley Found in Computer / technology / science Quotes, Heresy Quotes, Superstition Quotes,
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the read more
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the read more
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. -Galileo Galilei.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
An idea is the only level which moves the world.
An idea is the only level which moves the world.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in read more
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
