"Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding."

-- Edgar Morin

#Humanity Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Survival Quotes

“America as did with Israel with its blessing has been turning away from God driving Him out of its public squares. Bring in idols in its place and calling what is evil good and what is good evil. ... The glory of the city on the hill is fading and America now stands in danger of impending judgment, and we all know it.”
“Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.”
“Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?”
“Let them that don't want none have memories of not gettin' any.”
“Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance.”
“I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A.”
“A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.”

Source : Robert B. Laughlin (2008). “A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down”, p.162, Basic Books
“There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.”

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