Dark Ages Quotes - Page 14

• Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend.

  Dan Brown

  Dark, Age, Suggestions

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• Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.

  David Berlinski

  Religious, Ignorance, Dark

  David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.65, Basic Books

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• I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.

  Douglas Coupland

  Crazy, Dark, Pigs

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• I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed of how badly I have treated the people I love–of how badly I behaved during my own personal Dark Ages–back before I had a future and someone who cared for me from above. It is like today the sky opened up and only now am I allowed to enter

  Douglas Coupland

  Dark, Sky, People

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Water, Age

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred (and)...in nearly half the cases the new therapy was no better than the therapy it replaced. ...About 12% of the innovations increased complications.

  Jeffrey Bland

  Dark, Doctors, Office

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• It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40% and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would result in 100% cures.'

  Lancelot Hogben

  Dark, Average, People

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• Taking a biopsy often aggravates and stimulates growth - and does not indicate how many secondary tumors have developed.

  Charles Horace Mayo

  Dark, Growth, Age

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