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Post by Tamrin on Jun 10, 2013 9:25:41 GMT 10
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption
John Stuart Mill
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First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you
Nicholas Klein
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Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it
Louis Agassiz
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There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person
Alexander von Humboldt
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 10, 2013 9:27:49 GMT 10
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement
Edward de Bono
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 10, 2013 9:34:33 GMT 10
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty
Bro. Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 10, 2013 9:36:07 GMT 10
Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed
F. Paul Wilson
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 10, 2013 9:39:46 GMT 10
Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing
Joseph Butler
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 10, 2013 9:41:36 GMT 10
An hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe itLord Bertrand Russell (3rd Earl Russell), FRSEnglish mathematician and philosopher (Nobel 1950) I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 10, 2013 9:44:19 GMT 10
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems
Rudolf Carnap
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 10, 2013 9:48:58 GMT 10
Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discovered by observation, the study of them being the object of natural philosophy
Baron Joseph Fourier
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 10, 2013 10:05:08 GMT 10
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it
George Carlin
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 10, 2013 10:10:33 GMT 10
You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology
When David says that 12-foot blood-drinking child-sacrificing pedophile lizards secretly rule the world, he really is referring to lizards
Jon Ronson
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