+== On Education ==
+
+"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\
+— [[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." \\
+— [[https://fs.blog/2015/02/albert-einstein-learning/ | Einstein to his son]]
+
+"Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play." \\
+— [[http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=GreekTexts&getid=1&query=Pl.%20Resp.%20537c | Plato]]
+
+"If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the \\
+creativity and invention that characterizes children before \\
+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. \\
+Imagination is more important than knowledge. \\
+For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. \\
+It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” \\
+— [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929
+
+== 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." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
+
+"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." \\
+— [[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." \\
+— [[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
+
+On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth, \\
+a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king. Gandhi replied simply, \\
+"The King was wearing enough for the both of us." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] trolling :-)
+
+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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