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Otto E. Neugebauer

Otto E. Neugebauer quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes.”
-- Otto E. Neugebauer

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“There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.”
-- Otto E. Neugebauer

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“It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.”
-- Otto E. Neugebauer

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“No one has yet invented a system of education that is capable of ruining everyone.”
-- Otto E. Neugebauer

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“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”
“I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker”
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revoÂlution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.”
“The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.”
“I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.”
“You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.”
“I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.”
“A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.”
“Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him”
“All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.”

Otto E. Neugebauer quotes

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