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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
mary mccarthy— Up the Ladder from Charm to Vogue (1950)
[T]ruly grand and powerful theories […] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. […] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo . You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly.
stephen jay gould— "Mr. Sophia's Pony", p. 155
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”
richard m. stallman— Richard Stallman, Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing
We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be the mythological epitome of a savage, ruthless killer which is, in reality, no more than the reflected image of ourself.
— Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf (1963).
In other philosophical systems including Advaita Vedanta, maya is thought of as cosmic illusion or ignorance ( avidya ) that deludes the atman into forgetting its own divine nature. This forgetfulness of its true nature further causes the atman to mistakenly identify itself with the body and mind , assume individuality , and thus subject itself to the physical limitations in the phenomenal world ( samsara ).
— Bansi Pandit, in P.61 (The Hindu Mind: Fundamentals of Hindu Religion and Philosophy for All Ages)
