“The concept of a value-free science is absurd.”
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1960s, Economics As A Moral Science, 1969, p. 4 cited in: John B. Davis (2011)
“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
— Albert Camus, book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
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“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
B. Alan Wallace (1950) American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner
Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground up, Wisdom (1993).
Émile Durkheim book The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Source: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, 1912, p. 488
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
The Architecture of Theories (1891)
Context: Three conceptions are perpetually turning up at every point in every theory of logic, and in the most rounded systems they occur in connection with one another. They are conceptions so very broad and consequently indefinite that they are hard to seize and may be easily overlooked. I call them the conceptions of First, Second, Third. First is the conception of being or existing independent of anything else. Second is the conception of being relative to, the conception of reaction with, something else. Third is the conception of mediation, whereby a first and second are brought into relation.
Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Danish physicist
As quoted by his son Hans Bohr in "My Father", published in Niels Bohr: His Life and Work (1967), p. 328
Unsourced variant: The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
As quoted in Max Delbrück, Mind from Matter: An Essay on Evolutionary Epistemology, (1986) p. 167. It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth
“If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
Michio Kaku (1947) American theoretical physicist, futurist and author
Source: Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel