“We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge—to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe.”

— Robert Charles Wilson, book Blind Lake

Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 22 (p. 258)

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author 1953

Hans Christian von Baeyer (1938) American physicist

Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 5, Abstraction, Beyond concrete reality, p. 35

“We know the axes on which we should judge, and age has never been one.”

China Miéville book The Dusty Hat

The Dusty Hat (p. 203)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“When we are customarily annoyed by what we see as the failings of others, we are judging them by a ludicrous standard: we are assuming that they fully understand our desires, quite possibly better than we do, and that they have nothing to do but arrange things to fall seamlessly into place around our probably ill-communicated wishes.”

Derren Brown (1971) British illusionist

Books, Confessions of a Conjuror (2010)

“I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Interview with Rabindranath Tagore (14 April 1930), published in The Religion of Man (1930) by Rabindranath Tagore, p. 222, and in The Tagore Reader (1971) edited by Amiya Chakravarty
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