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“Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.”

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Petrarch, a renowned Italian poet of the Renaissance era, is known as the father of humanism. Born on July 20, 1304, and died on July 19, 1374, his lyrical poetry and humanist thoughts had a profound impact on later generations. more

“To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not like the reproduction of living plants, and of animals which have senses. For all these we see reproducing their own species from their own seeds; and a stone does not do this at all. We never see stones reproduced from stones; ... because a stone seems to have no reproductive power at all.”

Doe Soul Seems Science Order Animal Rocks Stones Accounts Plant Species Productions Seeds Senses Reproduction Geology Reproducing

Book:Book of Minerals

Source: Book of Minerals

“It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.”

Men Want Mind Ideas Science Passion Secret Knowledge Progress Development Discovery Logic Property Errors Mysterious Ministers Sparks Demonstration Charter

Book:Lectures on Modern History

Source: Lectures on Modern History

“Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.”

Knows Men Science Social Known Knowledge Scientist Infinite Instance Affected Asylums Unpredictability Inmates

Book:Science is a sacred cow

Source: Science is a sacred cow

“Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.”

Science Values Tree Fool Disease Shadow Accounts Thrive Superstitions Astrology Charlatans

Author:Maimonides

“Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, and that unwillingness to learn from Authority that comes from making almost verbatim lecture notes and handing them back to the professor.”

Facts Science Order Attention Learning Wonderful Humility Authority Accounts Notes Professors Lectures Textbooks

Book:Science is a sacred cow

Source: Science is a sacred cow

“Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.”

Wells Reason Science Accounts Good Sense

Book:Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

“It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon framing hypotheses with the greatest possible freedom from dogmatic prejudice. And if these were the really important things in life, physics would be an essential study for everybody.”

“But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true.... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.”

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Author:Anthony Standen

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