"I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say."
"Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo."
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Source: Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
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