Daedalus Quotes

• If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.

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  Gerald Holton

  Freedom   Self   Views  

  "Where is Science Taking Us? Gerald Holton Maps the Possible Routes". The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 18, 1981.

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• There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus

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  Rick Riordan

  Liars   Answers   Daedalus  

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• A tinkerer,” snapped Pasiphaë. “Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble.” Leo blinked. “Daedalus…like, the Daedalus? Well, then, you should know all about us tinkerers. We’re more into fixing, building, occasionally sticking wads of oilcloth in the mouths of rude ladies—

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  Rick Riordan

  Rude   Mouths   Daedalus  

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• Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

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  Alison Bechdel

  Grief   Sea   Design  

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

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  Philip Sidney

  Education   Flying   Daedalus  

  Sir Philip Sidney, William Gray (1860). “The miscellaneous works of Sir Philip Sidney, knt: with a life of the author and illustrative notes”, p.111

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