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-"God has no religion" -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] again +"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for." \\ +-- [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1276812-there-are-many-causes-that-i-am-prepared-to-die | Gandhi]] -When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] +"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." \\ +-- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] again -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." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] :-) +"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr.]] -"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] +"I only know one race: the human one." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] -"I only know one race: the human one." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] +"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." \\ +— [[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]] +"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 -"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]] +"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] -"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | Mother Teresa of Calcutta]] +"Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman | Richard Feynman]] -"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.]] +== On Philosophy and Religion == -"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] +When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." \\ +— [[https://saudialchemist.org/2007/11/24/yes-i-am-a-muslim-a-christian-and-a-jew/ | Gandhi]] (but didn't he also say "God has no religion"?) -"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] +"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] -"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]] +"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. \\ +All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, \\ +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]] -Looking at a mass of things for sale: "How many things I can do without!" -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] on consumerism +== 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 == + +
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+ +"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 == + +
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+ +"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