Konrad Lorenz
(1903–1989) Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973.
“The more you are a victim of contradictory impulses, the less you know which to yield to. To lack character - precisely that and nothing more.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
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“The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.”
Ayn Rand
(1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
It is true that this proviso is hardly necessary as regards the multiplication table, but knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic. Suppose I say "democracy is a good thing": I must admit, first, that I am less sure of this than I am that two and two are four, and secondly, that "democracy" is a somewhat vague term which I cannot define precisely. We ought to say, therefore: "I am fairly certain that it is a good thing if a government has something of the characteristics that are common to the British and American Constitutions," or something of this sort. And one of the aims of education ought to be to make such a statement more effective from a platform than the usual type of political slogan.
1940s, Philosophy for Laymen (1946)
Jerry Coyne
(1949) American biologist
showing that you’re batshit crazy
" Lying and/or ignorant Republican candidates still refuse to accept evolution https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/05/07/lying-andor-ignorant-republican-candidates-still-refuse-to-accept-evolution/" May 7, 2015
Antonio Porchia
(1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Cuanto menos uno cree ser, más soporta. Y si cree ser nada, soporta todo.
Voces (1943)
“THE ODIUM
Did you know,
that lack of touch
sometimes hurts more
than a strike?”
Marcin Malek
(1975) Polish writer
Among the things (2012), Page 134, the whole piece
Susan B. Anthony
(1820–1906) American women's rights activist
Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Autumn 1872)
Pierre Duhem
(1861–1916) French physicist, historian of science
[U]n symbole n'est, à proprement parler, ni vrai, ni faux; il est plus ou moins bien choisi pour signifier la réalité qu'il représente, il la figure d'une manière plus ou moins précise, plus ou moins détaillée...
[Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem, translated by Philip P. Wiener, The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, Princeton University Press, 1991, 069102524X, 168]
Notice sur les Titres et Travaux scientifiques de Pierre Duhem rédigée par lui-même lors de sa candidature à l'Académie des sciences (mai 1913), The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory (1906)