“Very Few Marxists” – Quote by Milton Friedman
“You know there are very few Marxists left in the world… they’re all in American universities.”
Milton Friedman
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Politics and Responsibility – Thomas Sowell Quote
“Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others – regardless of what the facts may be.”
Thomas Sowell
Physics Study and Secret Research – Robert Betts Laughlin
“You cannot study physics at any university anywhere in the world, because everything taught there is half disproven and half irrelevant. The relevant physics only takes place behind the closed doors of the labs in the arms and industrial sectors. The researchers working there use laws of nature that are unknown to university professors.”
Robert Betts Laughlin
Umberto Eco on Change and Stagnation
“If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you’re an idiot.”
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco on Books, Inquiry and Meaning
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.”
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco on Enemies and Fear
“For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.”
Umberto Eco
Quote About Fathers and Wisdom by Umberto Eco
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
Umberto Eco
Path Dependency of Cosmology – Bjørn Ekeberg
“Contrary to the scientific ideal of getting progressively closer to the truth, it looks rather like cosmology, to borrow a term from technology studies, has become path-dependent: overdetermined by the implications of its past inventions.”
Bjørn Ekeberg
Cosmological Paradigm and Mathematical Unification by Bjørn Ekeberg
“The crux of today’s cosmological paradigm is that in order to maintain a mathematically unified theory valid for the entire universe, we must accept that 95 percent of our cosmos is furnished by completely unknown elements and forces for which we have no empirical evidence whatsoever. For a scientist to be confident of this picture requires an exceptional faith in the power of mathematical unification.”
Bjørn Ekeberg
Bjørn Ekeberg on the Big Bang Paradigm
“today’s multilayered theoretical edifice of the big bang paradigm would turn out to be a confusing mix of fictional beasts invented to uphold the model, along with empirically valid variables mutually reliant on each other to the point of making it impossible to sort science from fiction.”
Bjørn Ekeberg