-- [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1276812-there-are-many-causes-that-i-am-prepared-to-die | Gandhi]]
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." \\
--- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] again
+-- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] again
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality." \\
-— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
"I only know one race: the human one." \\
— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." \\
-— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." \\
— [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates#Plutarch | Socrates]], circa 400 BC
the individual towards freedom. \\
— [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33738-all-religions-arts-and-sciences-are-branches-of-the-same | Albert Einstein, 1937]]
-== On Knowledge and Education ==
+== On Education ==
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\
-— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]]
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]]
"Mainly play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those. \\
That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes." \\
they are deformed by adult society." \\
— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget | Jean Piaget]], pioneer of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_education) | Constructivism]]
+"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\
+No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\
+The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\
+of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\
+if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
+— [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786)
+
+
+== On Epistemology ==
+
+<div style="float: right">{{Socrates.jpg|maxwidth=400}}</div>
+
+"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] \\
+"Facts are stubborn things." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams | John Adams]]
+"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor | Christopher Hitchens' razor]] \\
+
+"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 ]]
“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
-"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\
-— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
-
-"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\
-No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\
-The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\
-of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\
-if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
-— [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786)
-
== On Living a Good Life ==
+<div style="float: right">{{Spock.jpg|maxwidth=400}}</div>
+
"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\
-— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." \\
-— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. \\
Hack away at the unessential." \\
— [[https://www.brucelee.com/podcast-blog/2017/6/28/52-hack-away-the-unessentials | Bruce Lee]]
"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." \\
-— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | Mother Teresa of Calcutta]]
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | Mother Teresa of Calcutta]]
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." \\
— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock | Spock]], Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Looking at a mass of goods for sale: "How many things I have no need for!" \\
— [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius | Socrates]]' take on Athens' rampant consumerism, circa 400 BC
-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. \\
-— [[http://www.fidonet.org/policy4.txt | The FidoNet Policy 4.07, 1989]]
+Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. \\
+— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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