— [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786)
-== On Knowledge ==
+== On Epistemology ==
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"You don’t get to say you’ve proved something if you haven’t explained it. \\
A proof is a social construct. If the community doesn’t understand it, \\
you haven’t done your job.” \\
-— [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy O’Neil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture
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+— [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy O’Neil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture ]]
“At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. \\
When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. \\
In fact, I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. \\
It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” \\
— [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929
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== On Living a Good Life ==
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. \\
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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-1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\
-2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed. \\
-— [[https://www.fidonet.org/policy4.txt | The FidoNet Policy 4.07, 1989]]