"The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's doctrine. Its verdict against Galileo was rational and just."

-- Paul Feyerabend

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“A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.”
“Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”

Source : Glenway Wescott (1940). “The pilgrim hawk: a love story”
“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”
“Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.”
“We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.”

Source : "So What Do You Do, David Karp, Founder of Tumblr?". Interview with Sammy Davis, www.mediabistro.com. October 15, 2015.
“The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press
“Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.”
“You only know you love her when you let her go.”

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