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- The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid…
- I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful…
- Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet…
- They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.
- Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no…
- See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,
- It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle