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Science: a sometimes rigorous superficiality.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

“Stop the poetry!” cried Jansen, perhaps a bit too desperately. “Oh, won’t you please help us stop the poetry?”

Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.

Culture: an apparatus for imposing assertions as true.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

Today, science is modeling. If there is something that scientists cannot model—that resists modeling—their solution is to model it anyway.

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.

Materialism: a scheme in which everything in the world is derived either from a system of some kind or from randomness.

Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

We should direct our skepticism toward those statements that appeal to us.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

We should want global warming.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

“Do I? I say, do I? Do I care too much?”

Park V. Kessler, Nearly Music.