"Note on Dogma"
Proper Studies (1927)
Source: Complete Essays 2, 1926-29
Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher
Mysterious Answers To Mysterious Questions http://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answers_to_mysterious_questions/ (August 2007); Yudkowsky credits the map/territory analogy to physicist/statistician Edwin Thompson Jaynes.
Michael Bishop (1945) American writer
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 11, “Usurpation: Two Meteors, Prodigal of Light” (p. 200)
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Illustrated London News (19 April 1930)
Frédéric Bastiat book The Law
Source: The Law (1850)
Context: Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
“The Pyrenees have ceased to exist.”
Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) King of France and Navarra, from 1643 to 1715
Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées.
On his grandson becoming King of Spain, quoted in Voltaire, Le Siècle de Louis XIV (1751), ch.28
“Never cease to be amazed that you exist.”
Alan Nursall Canadian journalist
20 Questions with Edmonton's Alan Nursall, President and CEO of the Telus World of Science https://edmontonsun.com/2014/01/23/20-questions-with-edmontons-alan-nursall-president-and-ceo-of-the-telus-world-of-science/wcm/d67f2f28-c376-424c-8254-dbb541f2eeb3 (January 23, 2014)
“When I have ceased to exist, I won’t ever have existed.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Voces (1943)
