"Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad."

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Source : "The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995". Book by Martin Gardner (Introduction to Part III "Pseudoscience", p. 171), 1996.

Martin Gardner

#Running Quotes #Law Quotes #Long Quotes

“I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.”
“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
“Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.”

Source : Bernard Lonergan (2016). “A Second Collection”, p.17, University of Toronto Press
“To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.”
“There's a sucker born every minute.”
“It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.”
“I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.”
“For the drivers, a weekend off would be nice, but for the fans, it would not be a very good deal.”

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