Quote by Werner Karl Heisenberg on Reason and Truth
“It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.”
Werner Karl Heisenberg
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Quotes by Paul Feyerabend – Freedom, Tradition, and Society
“A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives these rights not because the importance the cash value, as it were) it has for outsiders but because it gives meaning to the lives of those who participate in it.”
Paul Feyerabend
Quote by Philip Plait on the Importance of Errors in Science
“However, science isn’t just about showing when you’re right; it’s also about showing when you’re wrong.”
Philip Plait
Quote by Gore Vidal on Maintaining Ignorance in the American Public
“There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.”
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal Quote on the Political Party System
“It makes no difference who you vote for – the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.”
Gore Vidal
Quote by Gore Vidal on the US Political Landscape
“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party…and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt – until recently… and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”
Gore Vidal
Quote by Philip Plait about the Brightest Star and Life Wisdom
“They say that even the brightest star won’t shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.”
Philip Plait
Quote by Gore Vidal on the American Political Elite
“Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.”
Gore Vidal
Quote by Gore Vidal about the meaning of liberal in political context
“Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.”
Gore Vidal
Quote by Werner Karl Heisenberg on Nature and Observation
“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”
Werner Karl Heisenberg