The most important scientific proverb

 The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

 If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

 The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
  Henry Louis Mencken

 All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
  John Stuart Mill

 Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or ideological, to play such an important part in civilized life. If one were to yield to a first impression, one would say that sublimation is a vicissitude which has been forced upon the instincts entirely by civilization. But it would be wiser to reflect upon this a little longer. In the third place, finally, and this seems the most important of all, it is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct, how much it presupposes precisely the non-satisfaction (by suppression, repression or some other means?) of powerful instincts. This ‘cultural frustration’ dominates the large field of social relationships between human beings;we know already that it is the cause of the antagonism against which all civilization has to fight.
  Sigmund Freud

 They include concerns about the culture of certain student groups that regularly abuse alcohol and the attitudes these groups promote. They include concerns about the survival of the legacy of racism, the most hateful feature American history has produced. ... [They] include concerns about the deep structures of inequality in our society ... and the attitudes of superiority those inequalities breed.

 But they are young, polite and have no previous convictions.

 We put women on a pedestal. So we do not consider them to be human beings.

 The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

 People put you on a pedestal when you become famous, in their eyes, or if they really respect your work, they might put you on a pedestal, but I didn't get that as a kid.

 I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal-the great leader.

 There was a sense of arrogance [under the previous CEOs]. There was a feeling that the people in Chicago thought they were the center of the universe.

 I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination
  George Norman Douglas

 I've never actually dug up any news story on a pedestal before. I don't understand the value of being on a pedestal.

 We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.


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