Thursday, 21 July 2011

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Schooling

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
 — Albert Einstein

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Contempt For Contempt

To punish me for my contempt of authority,
Fate has made me an authority myself.
 — Albert Einstein

Sunday, 17 July 2011

Friday, 15 July 2011

Big Ideas

One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
 — Sherlock Holmes in ‘A Study In Scarlet’ by Arthur Conan Doyle

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Not Fool-Proof

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
 — Christopher Hitchens

Sunday, 3 July 2011

Thursday, 30 June 2011

Too Much To Ask?

All I wanted to do was come to London and sell a dead Nazi's head.
 — Mr Jelly

Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Rights

Sadly, a lot of "normal" people who demand freedom of speech
do so to compensate for avoiding freedom of thought.
 — Doug Anderson

Friday, 24 June 2011

Funda Mental Processes

Belief and understanding are independent variables.

Monday, 20 June 2011

Inductive Reasoning

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck,
we have at least to consider the possibility
that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. 
 — Douglas Adams


An Alleged Duck