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• There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience.
  And then there is California. -- Edward Abbey...
• One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience.
  But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals. -- Edward Abbey...
• Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Science is a body of truths which offers clear and certain knowledge about the real world and is therefore superior to traditio
  philosophy, religion, dogma, and superstition which offer shadowy knowledge about an ideal world....
• Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians.
  Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter. -- Edward Abbey...
• Science is the whore of industry and the handmaiden of war. -- Edward Abbey
• Life imitates art--but badly. -- Edward Abbey
• Music is a savage art, a measured madness. -- Edward Abbey
• Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge.
  Probably tertiary. -- Edward Abbey...