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Sir Arthur Eddington

The possibility of exhibiting the whole world of physics in a unified geometrical representation is a test not of the nature of the world but of the ingenuity of the mathematician.

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell, Lion and The Unicorn (via philphys)

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But man is so partial to systems and abstract conclusions that he is ready to distort the truth, ready to hear nor see anything, as long as he can justify his logic.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (via philphys)

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The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on — because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.
Noam Chomsky (via fuckyeahchomsky)

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I think people have the capacity to see through the deceit in which they’re ensnared - but they gotta make the effort.
Noam Chomsky (via fuckyeahchomsky)

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