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Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theor... - MORE Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.
Peter B. Medawar
psychoanalysis
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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.... Fear a... - MORE Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
Peter B. Medawar
change
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Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of or... - MORE Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.
Peter B. Medawar
psychoanalysis | myths
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If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. - MORE If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
Peter B. Medawar
research
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Henry B. Adams was the first in an infinite series to discover and admit to himself that he really did not care whether truth was,... - MORE Henry B. Adams was the first in an infinite series to discover and admit to himself that he really did not care whether truth was, or was not, true. He did not even care that it should be proved true, unless the process were new and amusing. He was a Darwinian for fun.
Henry Brooks Adams
truth
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"To my thinking" boomed the Professor, begging the question as usual, "the greatest triumph of the human mind was the calculation ... - MORE "To my thinking" boomed the Professor, begging the question as usual, "the greatest triumph of the human mind was the calculation of Neptune from the observed vagaries of the orbit of Uranus."
"And yours," said the P.B.
Samuel Beckett
funny | astronomy
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A: You have never forgotten a grievance or remembered a favor. B: What favor? A: You have never forgotten a grievance or remembered a favor. B: What favor?
Mason Cooley
memory
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A: Do you want to know what the future holds for you? B: (pause) Nes! Yo! A: Do you want to know what the future holds for you? B: (pause) Nes! Yo!
Mason Cooley
future, the
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A: Everything changes. B: But not enough. A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.
Mason Cooley
change
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A: "Life is a sacrifice." B: "You go first." A: "Life is a sacrifice." B: "You go first."
Mason Cooley
sacrifices
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