Interesting

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G. K. Chesterton


Specialization is for insects. - Robert Heinlein

Ignorance is Bliss?

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. - Nicole Kidman


Poor girl must be confusing silliness and stupidity with happiness.

Grown-up Questions

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. - John J. Plomp


You know they are grown when they start answering your questions.


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Beginning of Delusion

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. - Jim Rohn 


In other words, know whereof you speak. 


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Preserving Liberty

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. - John Adams 


Face it, general knowledge will not be provided by the public schools (that includes Universities). It is up to you to do the job. Do it gently though, you will bucking the trend.


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Knowledge Value

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. - John Maurice Clark 


Maintain your worth - educate yourself.


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Stupid Miracles

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. - Robert Green Ingersoll 


If you find yourself faced with what seems to be a miracle - educate yourself.

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Obscurity

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

If you find an idea obscure then you have a hole in your values.

Bragging About Incompetence

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. - Richard Dawkins

Don't ever proudly proclaim incompetence in anything. You can admit it, but it is a shortcoming, not something worthy of bragging about.

UFO Sightings

From my knowledge of the world I think it is much more likely the reports of flying saucers are the result of the known irrational characteristics of terrestial intelligence rather than the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestial intelligence. - Richard P. Feynman

For the irrational it is easy to make assumptions about the unknown. The rational will try to make the unknown knowable.

Impartial Jury

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance. - G.K. Chesterton

And in a jury trial you are being judged by twelve people not smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Ignorance

When did ignorance become a point of view? – Dilbert


I’m sorry to say “All too soon in the history of man.”

Bad Science

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory. - Leonardo da Vinci



One of my pet peeves are those who "prove" their argument by saying a scientist said it was so. I've got more than one Bachelor of Science degree and have still been wrong once or twice. Having admitted that I see it was three times!