"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.
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.)
Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are: