Celia Green: Frases en inglés
Advice to Clever Children (1981)
The Human Evasion (1969)
“The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“The human race believes in not taking its problems seriously enough to solve them.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
Advice to Clever Children (1981)
“Human nature: vindictiveness lightly coated with dishonesty.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“The most exciting thing possible is actually true.”
Advice to Clever Children (1981)
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
Advice to Clever Children (1981)
The survival instinct tends to prolong life. The fundamental drive tends to inform itself about the universe.
Advice to Clever Children (1981)
“Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“In the universe there is room for an infinite series of beginnings.”
Advice to Clever Children (1981)
“The human race knows enough about thinking to prevent it.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“Children need admiration rather than affection.”
Advice to Clever Children (1981)
“Astonishment is the only realistic emotion.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
