“When you are looking for something beautiful and satisfying, it’s much harder to find the ugly truth.” Penn Jillette, in his book “Oh, God, No” , talking about showing how magic tricks are done.
the great tragedy of Science–the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact
— T. H. Huxley, “Biogenesis and Abiogenesis”
(I thought someone might’ve posted this under Rationality Quotes before, but Google just finds paraphrases in other threads.)
“When you are looking for something beautiful and satisfying, it’s much harder to find the ugly truth.” Penn Jillette, in his book “Oh, God, No” , talking about showing how magic tricks are done.
— T. H. Huxley, “Biogenesis and Abiogenesis”
(I thought someone might’ve posted this under Rationality Quotes before, but Google just finds paraphrases in other threads.)