"Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge."

-- Krister Stendahl

#Educational Quotes #Parenting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.”

Source : John Archibald Wheeler (2010). “Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company
“You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”

Source : "The benefits of internet innovation are hard to spot in GDP statistics" by Joseph Stiglitz, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2014.
“Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.”
“Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not a testable conclusion. Put hunches, gut feelings, and intuitions into the suggestion box. Let empiric methods shake out the good from bad suggestions.”

Source : Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.170, Macmillan
“You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.”
“You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.”
“I want to help people understand themselves a little bit better, to stop being so critical and judgmental of themselves, and to help them understand why they are going through some of the difficult things in their lives.”
“There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free at all, and we are free only as noumenal jellyfish floating about in an intelligible sea above the heavens, outside any context in which our supposedly "free" choices could have any conceivable human meaning or significance. Part of the problem here is that Kant faces up honestly to the fact that how freedom is possible is a deep philosophical problem to which there is no solution we can rationally comprehend.”

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