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61 " It’s simply not the case that secular liberalism, grounded in materialist utilitarianism, is the inevitable and default worldview of anyone who isn’t stupid, brainwashed, or uneducated; "
― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
62 " If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it,” Albert Einstein "
63 " The science of morality requires us to, in the end, get beyond the myth of a perfectly objective scientific morality. "
64 " WEIRD people (people in cultures that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) "
65 " WEIRD people, they argue, are “the weirdest people in the world. "
66 " Max Planck observed, revolutions in science sometimes have to wait for funerals. "
67 " As a theoretical physicist Max Planck (1858-1947) noted, "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." In other words, science advances by a series of funerals. "