"Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important."

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Source : George Zebrowski (2014). “Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia”, p.70, Open Road Media

George Zebrowski

#Science Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Progress Quotes

“If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.”

Source : "Baldwin announces bid for U.S. Senate" by Chris Johnson, www.washingtonblade.com. September 6, 2011.
“It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.”
“We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of grasping or tweezing out any permanent, sharable figment of it. Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality. But, with photographs, we have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all our lives.”
“Tobacco and religious organisations.”
“In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.”
“People ask me, How would you do as a contestant on the show? And I tell them I would do fairly well among senior citizens, but against a good thirty-year-old I would have trouble because I cannot recall information as quickly as I used to. You used to say something and I would go, boom, right away, very sharp. Now it's like, Oh, yes, but wait a minute, uh, uh...”
“I like 'Elle' magazine. I love things online, like when all the big brands have a fashion show, I like to see the new collections.”
“To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.”

Source : Louis Althusser, François Matheron (1997). “The spectre of Hegel: early writings”, Verso Books

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