Evelyn Fox Keller quotes

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.”
-- Evelyn Fox Keller

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“I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as capital T, that scientists are privy to, has been a very counterproductive vision. It has served scientists very well, but what it has done, above all, is encloses the world of science and immunize it from criticism.”
-- Evelyn Fox Keller

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“If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

“If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.”

“The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.”

“knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.”

“Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.”

“Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.”

“Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.”

Source : Craig Johnson (2007). “Kindness Goes Unpunished: A Longmire Mystery”, p.318, Penguin

“The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.”

“For nothing is evil in the beginning.”

“If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.”