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“How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman--a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?”

Children Facts Pain Empty Accounts Constant Notion Myth Persistence Shells Roof Nests Shattered Empty Nest

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks, effectively making it a myth. But research shows that while those are factors, they don't account for the whole gap, suggesting that discrimination certainly plays a role as well.”

Wells Children Play Whole Shows Choices Hours Pay Careers Roles Break Type Research Argument Accounts Myth Discrimination Factors Related Gaps Suggesting Pay Gap

Author:Laura Bates

“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.”

People Evil Accounts Luck Curiosity Myth Curious Good People Wickedness Attractiveness

Author:Oscar Wilde

“The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people.”

People Ifs Able Action Political Individual Effort Taken Talent Accounts Paid Historical Rewards Myth Productivity Accepted Legacy Collectives Assertion Collective Action Individual Talent

Author:Ha-Joon Chang

“It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.”

Has Beens Ideas Bigs Science Grows Growth Huge Amount Machines Accounts Including Dues Myth Our Time New Ideas

Author:Karl Popper

“Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed to govern it. They both fix the limits of what is considered as possible.”

World Humans Science Force Human Beings Limits Accounts Function Myth Representation

Author:Francois Jacob

“Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but with the critical discussion of myths, and of magical techniques and practices.”

Science Practice Criticism Accounts Critical Myth Technique Experiments Invention Observation Discussion Collections

Book:Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

“...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much of that body of work had been fabricated well after the establishment of Islam in order to lend outside support to Koranic mythology.... [T]he Iranian journalist and diplomat Ali Dashti...repeatedly took his fellow Muslims to task for not questioning the traditional accounts of Muhammad's life, much of which he called myth-making and miracle-mongering.”