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“[D]idn't Aristarchus and the Pythagoreans propose heliocentrism in ancient times? If only they had prevailed, we might have had Real Science millennia sooner. What was their evidence?
Well, you see, fire is nobler than earth and the center is a nobler position. So fire has to be in the center. QED.
There are many names for this sort of thinking, but "scientific" is not one of them.”
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Well, you see, fire is nobler than earth and the center is a nobler position. So fire has to be in the center. QED.
There are many names for this sort of thinking, but "scientific" is not one of them.”
―
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free: if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
― The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05
― The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05
“The feeling that the government should “do something” has seldom been based on a comparison of what actually happens when government does and when it does not “do something.”
― Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
― Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
“It is far easier to concentrate power than to concentrate knowledge. That is why so much social engineering backfires and why so many despots have led their countries into disasters.”
― Intellectuals and Society
― Intellectuals and Society
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