"science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress."

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Source : Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.38, Transaction Publishers

Joan Robinson

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“The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.”
“The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.”

Source : "The Theology of Arithmetic". Translated by Robin Waterfield in "The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers", 1988.
“Empathy cannot by definition oppress anyone.”

Source : Simon Baron-Cohen (2013). “The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty”, p.186, Basic Books
“The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.
“Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.”
“After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us.”

Source : "Friedrich Kittler obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.
“People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.”
“A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.”

Source : "The Brilliant Complications Of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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