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Surely even the most vehement of ideologues couldn’t find anything wrong with Norway?
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014)
“Politics,” he spat. “Everyone is always looking for material to use against everybody else.”
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014)
Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you’re not helping people, just servicing the machine.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014)
Knowledge is not a substitute for ingenuity, merely an accelerant.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014)
There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014)
Complexity should be your excuse for inaction.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014)
The world is ending, as it always must. But the end of the world is getting faster.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014)
The roads were defined merely by the place where the mud was most pressed down.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014)
A scientific argument must have some degree of data, some…some sniff of theoretical basis behind it; otherwise it’s not a scientific argument, it’s a philosophical debate.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014)
Pure science is no more and no less than the logical process of deduction and experimentation upon observable events. It has no good or bad about it, merely right or wrong in a strictly mathematical definition. What people do with that science is cause for ethical debate, but it is not for the true scientist to concern themselves with that. Leave it to the politicians and philosophers.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014)