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]]
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 Knowledge ==
+
+<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." \\
-— [[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 \\
-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." \\
— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
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
+Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. \\
+— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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