satt comments on Rationality Quotes Thread October 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FairWitness 28 October 2015 02:54:27AM 7 points [-]

"When you are looking for something beautiful and satisfying, it's much harder to find the ugly truth." Penn Jillette, in his book "Oh, God, No" , talking about showing how magic tricks are done.

Comment author: satt 29 October 2015 03:22:43AM 3 points [-]

the great tragedy of Science–the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

— T. H. Huxley, "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis"

(I thought someone might've posted this under Rationality Quotes before, but Google just finds paraphrases in other threads.)