Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 6, “You’re Wrong About Everything (But So Am I)” (p. 119)
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
“Comfort zones, after all, are the enemy of growth.”
Source: Humble the Poet, UnLearn: 101 Simple Truths For A Better Life
Page 17
Other writings, The Growth of the Law (1924)
“The public…demands certainties…But there are no certainties.”
Source: 1910s, Prejudices, First Series (1919), Ch. 3
Can Life Prevail? :A Revolutionary Approach to the Environmental Crisis. UK: Arktos Media, 2nd Revised ed. (2011). ISBN 1907166637 (English translation of Voisiko elämä voittaa) page 122
“Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.”
“The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.”
The second sentence is often misquoted as “Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.” or “Religion gives us certainty without proof; science gives us proof without certainty.”
Context: Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.
September 1874, Popular Science Monthly Vol. 5, Article: The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction , p. 607
The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction (1874)
