"It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong."

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Source : Quarterly Review of Biology Journal, 51, p. 277-283, 1976.

John Maynard Smith

#Criticism Quotes #Doe Quotes #Should Quotes

“Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes the booby prize. . . . Man has asked for truth and the Church has given him miracles. He has asked for knowledge, and the Church has given him theology. He has asked for facts, and the Church has given him the Bible. This foolishness should stop. The Church has nothing to give man that has not been in cold storage for two thousand years. Anything would become stale in that time.”
“Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.”

Source : "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.
“No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!”
“A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.”

Source : John Winthrop (1853). “The History of New England from 1630 to 1649”, p.281
“In essence, everything is energy and cannot be destroyed.”
“Sure, end-to-end encryption means that whether it's a phone call we're on or an email message we're sending or any form of electronic communication, that the content of that communication is encrypted from your device, such as your phone or PC, unto the other person's device at the other side, wherever they might be on the planet Earth.”
“I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“In that he didn't die at the finish line, he could have run faster”

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