Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 6, “The Infinite Ocean” (p. 52)
“For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.”
1461b.11
Poetics
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William Soutar
(1898–1943) British poet
Diary, 29th August 1932.
Quotation posted with the permission of the National Scottish Library, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 22.
“preferences ⊕ institutions ⊕ physical possibilities = outcomes”
Charles Plott
(1938) American economist
⊕ refers unspecified abstract operator.
"The application of laboratory experimental methods to public choice". In C.S. Russell (Ed.), Collective decision making: Applications from public choice theory (1979)
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(1963) American computer scientist
American Elections Are Too Easy to Hack. We Must Take Action Now, Schneier, Bruce, 2018-04-18, The Guardian, 2018-08-12 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/18/american-elections-hack-bruce-scheier,
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Henry Beston
(1888–1968) American writer
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Karl Popper
(1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science
Utopia and Violence (1947)
Context: There are many difficulties impeding the rapid spread of reasonableness. One of the main difficulties is that it always takes two to make a discussion reasonable. Each of the parties must be ready to learn from the other. You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.