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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading \\
 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." \\
 — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]]
@@ -57,21 +57,6 @@ 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]]
 
-“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
-
-"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." \\
-— Christopher Hitchens \\
-
 "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 \\
@@ -80,8 +65,33 @@ 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]]
 
@@ -106,11 +116,5 @@ a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king.  Gandhi replied
 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. \\
-— [[https://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