Antipodes Quotes (3 quotes)
Common sense is the very antipodes of science.
In Systematic Psychology: Prolegomena (1972), 48.
The electric nerve, whose instantaneous thrill
Makes next-door gossips of the antipodes…
Makes next-door gossips of the antipodes…
Poem 'Science and Poetry', collected in The Poetical Works of James Russell (1848, 1897), 437.
You find FACTS as things given; I get them only by a long process of excavating (so to say), and so regard them as the very antipodes of things given.
In Letter, collected in Adolf Meyer and Edward Bradford Titchener, Defining American Psychology: The Correspondence Between Adolf Meyer and Edward Bradford Titchener (1990), 259.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
