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
risk way research
Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.
superstitions belief our-time
One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.
dishonesty clarity
Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.
people might accepting
People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
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.
race gains conformity
If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.
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.