“ Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ”
The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
~ John Maynard Keynes
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.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
