Misapprehension Quotes
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“O hateful error, melancholy's child,
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
The things that are not? O error soon conceived,
That never com'st unto a happy birth,
But kill'so the mother that engendered thee”
― Julius Caesar
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
The things that are not? O error soon conceived,
That never com'st unto a happy birth,
But kill'so the mother that engendered thee”
― Julius Caesar

“I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.”
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“Well,â€� Harry said, “look at it this way: Suppose you were an intelligent bacterium floating in space, and you came upon one of our communication satellites, in orbit around the Earth. You would think, What a strange, alien object this is, let’s explore it. Suppose you opened it up and crawled inside. You would find it very interesting in there, with lots of huge things to puzzle over. But eventually you might climb into one of the fuel cells, and the hydrogen would kill you.
And your last thought would be: This alien device was obviously made to test bacterial intelligence and to kill us if we make a false step.
“Now, that would be correct from the standpoint of the dying bacterium. But that wouldn’t be correct at all from the standpoint of the beings who made the satellite. From our point of view, the communications satellite has nothing to do with intelligent bacteria. We don’t even know that there are intelligent bacteria out there. We’re just trying to communicate, and we’ve made what we consider a quite ordinary device to do it.”
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And your last thought would be: This alien device was obviously made to test bacterial intelligence and to kill us if we make a false step.
“Now, that would be correct from the standpoint of the dying bacterium. But that wouldn’t be correct at all from the standpoint of the beings who made the satellite. From our point of view, the communications satellite has nothing to do with intelligent bacteria. We don’t even know that there are intelligent bacteria out there. We’re just trying to communicate, and we’ve made what we consider a quite ordinary device to do it.”
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“The aviator-organisms found it appalling to be so terribly misapprehended, but they made a misapprehension as well.
“What do you know?� they protested. “The authorities, all of which are so knowledgeable, know about you.�
“You guys are technologically and economically undeveloped, and we are speaking based on what the authorities say. How can you make negotiations when you are so ignorant?�
The arguments continued without a trace of negotiation.”
― Logicalard Fallacoid
“What do you know?� they protested. “The authorities, all of which are so knowledgeable, know about you.�
“You guys are technologically and economically undeveloped, and we are speaking based on what the authorities say. How can you make negotiations when you are so ignorant?�
The arguments continued without a trace of negotiation.”
― Logicalard Fallacoid
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