User:Mariordo







My Favorite Quotations
"The more I learn the more I know there is to know", or "The only true knowledge is knowledge of one's own ignorance", adapted from Socrates "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance", as quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosophers

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth", Albert Einstein

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", Carl Sagan.

"Passion (in any argument) is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available", Gregory Benford.

"The cardinal sin, when we are looking for truth of fact or wisdom of policy, is refusal to discuss, or action which blocks the discussion", Sidney Hook, in "The Ethics of Controversy"

"Financial models are no excuse for resting your brain", John Kay, in The Financial Times (2009-01-27)

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it", Alan Key, in Steve Jobs (biography)

"Experts, when they try to forecast the future, are usually wrong", Freeman Dyson, in The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution

"If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories", Karl Popper

"Democracy will never be supplanted be a republic of experts - and that is a very good thing", Thomas Piketty

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"... there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know", Socrates in Gorgias

"It has become almost a cliché 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

There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions..." Karl Popper

"I do not attempt to convert my opponents - I aim at converting their audience", David Goodman (DGG), Wiki Administrator

"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws", attributed to Albert Einstein.

"Imagine there's no countries, ... No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace..." John Lennon, Image, 1971.



"As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail", Albert Einstein

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