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“Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.”
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“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
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“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”
Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”
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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
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“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”
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“Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.”
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“Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.”
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“Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.”
