“One of the best-kept secrets of science is that physicists have lost their grip on reality.”
Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 2, Physicists Losing Their Grip, p. 15
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Clare Fischer (1928–2012) American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader
As quoted in "Clare Fischer: The Best Kept Secret in Jazz" http://www.artistinterviews.eu/?page_id=5&parent_id=22/
Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) Polish-born British mathematician
Part 4: "The Abacus and the Rose" (p. 103)
Science and Human Values (1956, 1965)
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”
George Bernard Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession
Crofts, Act III
Variant: There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
Source: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
Wolfgang Köhler (1887–1967) German-American psychologist and phenomenologist
Source: Dynamics in Psychology, 1940, p. 116
“Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.”
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter VII, p. 72.
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
Oh, and, have fun along the way. <br class="br"> Comment on "I am Neil deGrasse Tyson -- AMA", November 13, 2011 https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/c2zg4do, <br class="br">2010s
“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.”
Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin
Source: The Blind Assassin
“One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.”
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) American scientist and inventor
Address to Polaroid employees at Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts (5 February 1960), as quoted in Insisting on the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land (1998) by Victor K. McElheny, p. 7
Land was not the first to make such observations; in One Man in His Time (1922), p. 162, Ellen Glasgow has a character state:
Half the time when he is telling the truth, it sounds like a joke, and that keeps people from believing him. He says the best way to keep a secret is to shout it from the housetops; and I've heard him say things straight out that sounded so far fetched nobody would think he was in earnest. I was the only person who knew that he was speaking the truth.
