"How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error."

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Steven Johnson

#Intelligent Quotes #Errors Quotes #People Quotes

“Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.”
“The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.”
“The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.”

Source : Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.25, Editorial MAXTOR
“I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.”
“The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll they held between them proclaiming eternal resurrection was broken in two.”
“In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil”

Source : Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”
“PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax.”
“From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.”

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