"We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance."

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Source : "A Scientist Ponders Faith". Saturday Review, 3, January 1959. "The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition". Book by F. A. Hayek, edited by ‎Ronald Hamowy, p. 77, 2013.

Warren Weaver

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“It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.”
“Love is just a piece of time in the world in the world And I couldn't help but fall in love again”
“Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence.Â If our faith does not throw us into the arms of the world, if it does not lead to our experience of responsibility, love, celebration, and our commitment to transformation, then, whatever we call it, we have nothing but an empty shell.”
“American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.”
“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
“I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical contact with aliens, I think it will be benign.”
“There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views.”
“It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.”

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