Ek het nou al 'n paar aanhalings wat die gedagtes prikkel geplaas voor hierdie verduideling en sluit vir nou eers af met die volgende:
"Anyone who says we are a society lacking belief is not paying attention. If anything, we are lacking doubt"
"An individual best achieves optimal stupidity on those rare occasions when one is both given substantial powers and insulated from the results of his or her actions"
“Human beings are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behaviour is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves”
"There is no a priori reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting"
All dichotomies are false, but some are more of a bitch to transcend than others"
"In France, ideas are preferred to works"
''In the United States the play of the mind is the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence"
“Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go"
"It is the profession of philosophers to question platitudes that others accept without thinking twice. A dangerous profession, since philosophers are more easily discredited than platitudes"
“It is necessary to fall in love, if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway”
"Our knowledge advances not when we have the best theory, or the best data, or the best lab, but when we have really good problems"
"Science is not about certainty. Science is about finding the most reliable way of thinking, at the present level of knowledge"
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John Gray, on reason
"Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof"
"One of the problems with clever people is that they transport their cleverness around like confetti, to chuck at people whether it's wanted or not"
Hello
Ek het nou al 'n paar aanhalings wat die gedagtes prikkel geplaas voor hierdie verduideling en sluit vir nou eers af met die volgende:
Wouter Ferns
Baie dankie vir die belangstelling.
CM