Lancelot Law Whyte quotes

“I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts are examined from a fresh point of view.”
-- Lancelot Law Whyte

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“Thought is born of failure.”
-- Lancelot Law Whyte

Source : Lancelot Law Whyte (1975). “The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion”, p.78, Transaction Publishers

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“Thought is borne of failure.”
-- Lancelot Law Whyte

“Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.”
-- Lancelot Law Whyte

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“In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.”

“Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.”

“As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.”

“Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.”

“Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed.”

Source : "Light Waves and Their Uses". Book by Albert A. Michelson. Published by The University of Chicago Press, pp. 23-25, 1903.

“The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.”

“A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.”

“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”

“If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster”

“I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.”