Celia Green
Celia Green
Celia Elizabeth Greenis a British writer on philosophical scepticism, twentieth-century thought, and psychology...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 November 1935
race facts method
The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.
memorable astonishment way
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
science supposing-that theoretical-physics
The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus ...
strong science race
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.
past attention genius
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
book writing long
I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
mean people prejudice
When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
mind together mouths
A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.
people democracy aristocracy
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
psychology special cases
The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.
impossible failing attempting
Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.
curious individual results
It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.
humble people behalf
It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.
done research requirements
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.