I'd like to introduce food aphorisms which I agree with and disagree with.
"Humor keeps us alive. Humor and Food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.-Joss Whedon
I agree with this, because I sympathized this thought. Eating food is important to live a healthy life. And I can't go a week eithout having food. To be alive, the most imoirtant thing is to eat something.
"The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star."-Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
I disagree with this, because of course it is important for human race to discover new dish, however I think that it is more important for us to discover a star. It is because if ancient people didn't discover stars, we might not live on earth now.
I think the point of the second aphorism wasn't that eating is _more_ important than scientific discovery, it's just that we can get more happiness from the former. Scientific progress makes our life more comfortable, but the simple pleasures of eating a good meal generally make us happier than playing with a new app or learning about a newly discovered species of spider on Borneo. I think that's what the author was trying to say.
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