Larry Fort Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. ...this is just the history of science, my dear friend. This is how it goes. We could be on the verge of a breakthrough if past events are any indication. Look at how Galileo was persecuted by the Church for his radical views. Remember, it was that very persecution that led to the foundation of modern science. Still Standing

2. Even after years of scientific strides academic enlightenment was still lacking. The fossilized scientists from yesteryear, with their avian noses, would cast down their deterministic gaze at the those who strayed too far from the ancient zeitgeist. Those in front of the blackboard, tossing out cash, would rather stick to what they knew, would rather maintain the world they helped create so that they may retain dominance, comfy in their ivory tower thrones. But at what cost? One can always remain on top of a mountain that never grows. Still Standing

3. He's a miserable Ph.D. wielding airhead. Once or twice he is right, but seldom about anything important. But I think that of all pseudo-scientists. Still Standing

4. So modern scientists are the pious cult of yesteryear?"Exactly. Their dated dogma of immediacy and parsimony, while digestible, is ultimately untrue and will fail them in the end. Experimenters are always ahead of the zeitgeist, we’ll just have to wait for the world to catch up. Still Standing

5. That's how science works. You have to play the game. We need the money, they need the product Still Standing

6. The pure nature of science had long been corrupted in his eyes. It was a fact he had battled with, but as he felt the carnivorous capitalistic cadence that brushed the air, he knew it to be true. Still Standing

7. What does consciousness feel like?"Music. Beethoven’s fifth played in various hertz, shown in various wavelengths, at various frequencies, compounding. A grand orchestra, a waltz, through every circuit, through every wire, accumulating nowhere and everywhere... Still Standing

8. Why would they support something so avant garde? So theoretical? Where is the replication in that? Keep it simple; keep it reportable; keep it digestible. That was the key to success on the pre-paved highway of life, but he could not be that stereotype. Still Standing

9. You can’t be ridiculed if you admit you’re a clown beforehand. Jester or scientist? He felt his career was a marriage of both. Still Standing