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🇺🇸Carl Sagan

Science

1934–1996

"For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations."

"When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers."

"The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees."

"Steven Pinker Multimedia. Extensive lists of audio and video files"

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."

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🇺🇸Gore Vidal

Literature

postmodern literature

1925–2012

"You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country."

"Rose: But the world is full of Martha wannabes."

"government that can't tax ...is no government at all."

"Ten years after NAFTA, Mexico's leading export to America is still — Mexicans. America is becoming Mexamerica."

"A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws."

"Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to take us back to Reagan-Bush."

"There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed but nothing could be done about good men who were deluded."

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🇺🇸John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics

Keynesian economics

1908–2006

"Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects."

"Not only in research, but also in the everyday world of politics and economics, we would all be better off if more people realised that simple nonlinear systems do not necessarily possess simple dynamical properties."

"Golden Gryphon Press official site - About Two Trains Running"

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🇺🇸Gary North (economist)

Economics

Christian reconstructionism

1942–2022

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🇬🇧Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Literature

b. 1959

"Jansson was an upper-middle-class bohemian lesbian, living on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland . I was a suburban scouser on a new-build housing estate. It felt as though she was writing just for me."

"...If we fail to act to bring down our carbon emissions over the next decade, this will lock in disastrous melting of the ice sheets, sea level rise, and a rise in devastating weather extremes down the road."

"At that time, there was general agreement among everyone involved in women’s liberation that women should have a defined sexual self-interest."

". "I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!"

"That evening, as I watched the sunset’s pinwheels of apricot and mauve slowly explode into red ribbons, I thought: The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on."

"… mathematicians progress only by doubt, through humble and constant attempts to impinge on the immense domain of the unknown."

"Systems at each level of integration function as wholes with respect to their parts and parts with respect to higher level wholes."

"No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq."

"The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die."

"Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries."

"This is the next great diversity issue of our time."

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🇫🇷Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1709–1751

"magination is the soul, since it plays all the roles of the soul."

"We only see shadows of reality. We shouldn't expect those shadows to behave sensibly."

"The rapid accumulation of change is not always progress, and forward motion is not always an advance."

"'Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' -- People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say."

"What happened at Hiroshima was less than a millionth part of a holocaust at present levels of world nuclear armament."

🇳🇴Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Politics

1962–2024

"One reason for the increased interest in studies of identity in anthropology may be the fact that issues to do with the nature of groups have become hugely important in politics worldwide in the last decades."

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🇬🇧Frederick W. Lanchester

Mathematics

1868–1946

"Mr. Lanchester seems to be the first man who has considered and mastered the fact and theory of every phase of the subject before sitting down to write."

"The systematic principle is based upon the hypothesis that there is a structure in the real world that transcends the distinctions of subjective and objective experience."

"I would like to create a speedier and more efficient system. Careers and reputations are at stake, and it would be good to be able to inject a sense of calm and transparency into procedures."

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