“It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.”
"The Octopus Marooned"
The Gentle Grafter (1908)
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“A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer
Bennington College address (1970)
Context: A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.
Laurell K. Hamilton A Stroke of Midnight
Ivi; p. 147
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Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols
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“There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.”
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Source: 1970s, Krishnamurti's Notebook (1976), p. 166
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Noam Elkies (1966) American mathematician
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