Agendas Quote by Jasun Ether

“Information is the religion of the modern world.”

— David Lodge

“We have come to mistake information for knowledge.”

— Monica Sjoo

“In an era of too much information, the need for discernment and wisdom will be greater than ever.”

— Craig Detweiler

“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid,…

— Marcel Proust

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid…

— Marcel Proust

“For centuries, most of the devout had looked past vast amounts of scientific data and rational logic in defense of their faith.”

— Dan Brown

“Everywhere one turned, one found idiocies that were commonly accepted as truths only because they were embedded in a theory to which the scientists…

— Michael Lewis

“Today, scientists and doctors find themselves outnumbered and outgunned by vast armies of individuals who feel entitled to pass judgment on matters of evidence—an…

— Ben Goldacre

“They told the truth, but they buried it so deep in the footnotes of scientific reports and the jargon of obscure journals that almost…

— Mary Mycio

“The modern world is drowning in information. We have more data than we can possibly use regarding nearly every picayune matter of society, economics,…

— Jeffrey A. Lockwood

“The medical profession is unconsciously irritated by lay knowledge.”

— John Steinbeck