The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.”
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.”
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“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.”
“Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.”
“The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.”
“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.”
“In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.”
“You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.”
“Truth raises more questions than answers, whereas lies are snugly, sure and doubtless.”
“It is time to do a major rethinking of the recommended vaccine schedule, and at what age which vaccines should be given to maximize protection of our children from contagious diseases, while also protecting them from adverse effects from the vaccines.”
“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are “scientifically illiterate.” That’s just the same fraction as those African Americans, almost all of them slaves, who were illiterate just before the Civil War—when severe penalties were in force for anyone who taught a slave to read. Of course there’s a degree of arbitrariness about any determination of illiteracy, whether it applies to language or to science. But anything like 95 percent illiteracy is extremely serious.”
“Even before humanity realized the earth spins on its axis, they had understood that the sea belongs to everyone”
“Nobody knows what the whales may have to click and clack about, but it could be a form of voting-time to stop here and synchronously dive down in search of deep water squid, now time to resurface, move on, dive again. Clans also seem to caucus on which males they like and will mate with more or less as a group and which ones to collectively spurn. By all appearances, female sperm whales are terrible size queens. Over the generations, they have consistently voted in favor of enhanced male mass. Their dream candidate nowadays is some fellow named Moby, and he's three times their size.”