“Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.”

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 17 “Gaia” section 5, p. 363

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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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“Everywhere these inventions of science by ignorant misuse of a new technique were wiping out the artist.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

“Like most artists who have made an invention of some kind, he tends to overplay the significance of his own and goes on about it as though it were a Rosetta Stone, with whose help all representation can be rescued from one-eyed falsehood.”

Robert Hughes (1938–2012) Australian critic, historian, writer

"David Hockney" (1988)
Nothing If Not Critical (1991)

“As the history majors among you here today know all too well, when people in power invent their own facts and attack those who question them, it can mark the beginning of the end of a free society. That is not hyperbole. It is what authoritarian regimes throughout history have done. They attempt to control reality. Not just our laws and our rights and our budgets, but our thoughts and beliefs.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Post Presidential Election, Wellesley Commencement Speech (2017)

“But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new "things."”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Sec. 58
The Gay Science (1882)

“There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely desperate.”

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director

Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.
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