"Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact."

-- Martyn

#Facts Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.”

Source : Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.2, Princeton University Press
“All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.”
“The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.”
“To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.”

Source : Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”
“At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.”
“All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art...Skill has nothing to do with technical proficiency... I'm interested in people who rethink skill, who redefine or reimagine it: an engineer, say, who builds rockets from rocks.”
“A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."”
“We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.”

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