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“This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.”

Facts Sound Truth Is Ordinary Extraordinary Statements

Author:Brian Perkins

“I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.”

Thinking Facts Helping Problem Taken Extraordinary Partners Addresses Greece

Author:Lucas Papademos

“Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.”

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success.”

Men Facts Modern Civilization Roots Extraordinary Thanks Symbols Mediocre Commonplace Modern Science Experimental Science

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.”

Facts Brain Extraordinary Devices

Book:Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

Source: Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife