“ The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones. ”
The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.
