“Ultimate explanation no longer means only a story that encompasses everything.”
New Theories of Everything (2007), Ch. 1, p. 6
“Ultimate explanation no longer means only a story that encompasses everything.”
New Theories of Everything (2007), Ch. 1, p. 6
IV. That the species of myth are five, with examples of each.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
The Ethic of Freethought (Mar 6, 1883)
Watts' Foreward to The Secret Oral Teachings in the Tibetan Buddhist Sects (1964)], by Alexandra David Neel
In a telegram https://rr0.org/time/1/9/4/7/07/12/Arnold_Telegram/index.html to the Commanding General of Wright Field in Ohio, who requested information on his sighting of June 24, 1947.
Kenneth Arnold in a telegram https://rr0.org/time/1/9/4/7/07/12/Arnold_Telegram/index.html to the Commanding General of Wright Field in Ohio, who requested information on his sighting of June 24, 1947.
Pakistan or The Partition of India (1946)
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Nominalist and Realist
Frost snorted. “I certainly do—if he has observed it with his own eyes and ears, or gets it from a source known to be credible. A fact doesn’t have to be understood to be true. Sure, any reasonable mind wants explanations, but it’s silly to reject facts that don’t fit your philosophy.”
Elsewhen (pp. 161-162)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)
The Ocean of Theosophy by William Q. Judge (1893), Chapter 11, Karma
The Ocean of Theosophy by William Q. Judge (1893), Chapter 8, Of Reincarnation
A Textbook of Theosophy (1912), Chapter One
Source: Henry Rios series of novels, The Hidden Law (1992), p.55
Speech (2 December 1971) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1971/esp/f021271e.html
Speech (7 June 1972) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1972/esp/f070672e.html
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter One, The Conspiracy
Simon Moya-Smith, I am a Native American. I have some questions for Elizabeth Warren https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/15/opinions/elizabeth-warren-native-heritage-where-has-she-been-moya-smith/index.html, CNN.com, October 15, 2018
Excerpt from Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/12/4/watch_the_assassination_of_fred_hampton.
The prince understood what she meant. Once reason was no longer your guide, you were like a man stranded in a featureless landscape. There were no landmarks to use. One direction was as likely to yield results as any other.
Source: Sea Without a Shore (1996), Chapter 26 (p. 353)
In clean-cut form, his duties and relations to other men of the organization are laid down once and for all, and responsibility rests on the right man. Failure so to specify responsibilities inevitably means confusion all down the line.
Source: Industrial organization (1914), p. 24-25
<span lang="arc" dir="rtl">דעלך סני לחברך לא תעביד. זו היא כל התורה כולה, ואידך פירושה הוא: זיל גמור</span>
D'`alakh s'nai l'khavrekh la ta`avaid. Zo hi kol hatora kulahh, ve'idakh perusha hu: zil g'mor
Babylonian Talmud, tractate Shabbat 31a
David Foster Wallace, author in 2006 article in the New York Times titled Federer as Religious Experience http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?pagewanted=all
Dog Star, p. 786
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
Ch 3
Man in Evolution (1941)
But how much more do you want? We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they’re never going to be born. The number of people who could be here, in my place, outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here, the number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist. We are privileged to be alive and we should make the most of our time on this world.
End of the part 2: "The Virus of Faith" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMUG6qd98wc
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)
" The Radical Plan to Phase out Earth's Predatory Species https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-radical-plan-to-eliminate-earths-predatory-species-1613342963", io9, 30 Jul. 2014
“I won’t bother to offer explanations because the media is determined to distort all I say.”
quoted in Madhu Purnima Kishwar: Modi, Muslims and Media. Voices from Narendra Modi’s Gujarat, Manushi Publications, Delhi 2014.
2014
From the autobiography
pp. 171-172. https://books.google.com/books?id=ygqYnSR3oe0C&pg=PA171
The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F.R.S (1921), Experiments on Air By (1784)
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8897537-people-change-just-in-a-blink-you-won-t-get-any
“I come without explanations or solutions. I can only tell you what I’ve seen.”
2020's, Speech during a 9/11 commemoration at the Flight 93 National Memorial
Diachronicle: Days 57–221 (winter, year 0)
Source: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (2017)
Source: Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996), p. 186
Source: [Theory-testing in psychology and physics: A methodological paradox, Philosophy of Science, 34, 2, 1967, 103–115, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/288135]
Source: Notes made by Tversky for a scientific paper, c.1972. Michael Lewis. "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World". Penguin, 2016 (ISBN 9780141983035).