8 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig about science

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    We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all,and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

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    The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.

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    The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

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    One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

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    The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.

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