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Thoughts About Climate Change, Peace In the Middle-East And Gun Control In America

Posted in Environment, General Comments, Leadership, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 10, 2023| 2 Comments »

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction.  They may be summed up by the phrases:  1)  It’s completely impossible.  2)  It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing.  3)  I said it was a good idea all along.
 
    —    Arthur C. Clark
 
It has been said that the reception of any successful new scientific hypothesis goes through three predictable phases before being accepted.
First, it is criticized for being untrue.
Secondly, after supporting evidence accumulates, it is stated that it may be true, but it is not particularly relevant.
Thirdly, after it has clearly influenced the field, it is admitted to be true and relevant, but the same critics assert that the idea was not original.
 
    —    Adrienne Zihlman
 
All truth passes through three stages:  First, it is ridiculed.  Second, it is violently opposed.  Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
 
    —    Arthur Schopenhauer
 
[We are stuck between “One” and “Two”, so we may never get to “Three”…  It strikes me that we simply lack the moral fiber to recognize the truth and the political leadership to address the issues.    —    kmab]
 
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Bull’s Eye

Posted in Quotes, tagged , , , on December 17, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Talent hits a target no one else can hit;  Genius hits a target no one else can see.
     —    Arthur Schopenhauer
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Still Ticklish

Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged , , , , , on May 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Life is a ticklish business.  I have resolved to spend it in reflecting upon it.
    —    Arthur Schopenhauer
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Exceeding Service

Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged , , , on March 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Genius consists in this, that the knowing faculty has received a considerably greater development than the service of the will demands.
    —    Arthur Schopenhauer
In other words, the genius is able to subjugate his will, or desires, in order to view the world objectively.  To the ordinary man, the world is temporary and specific;  to the genius, it is eternal, universal, and profound.
[This comment appears in my journal as unattributed.  It may have been my own, and I believe it is, but I am not sure.    —    kmab]
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Prospero’s Precepts

Posted in Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 1, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Dubbed “Prospero’s Precepts“, these eleven rules culled from some of history’s greatest minds can serve as a general-purpose guideline for critical thinking in all matters of doubt:
1.   All beliefs in whatever realm are theories at some level.  (Stephen Schneider)
2.   Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own.  You may both be wrong.  (Dandemis)
3.   Read not to contradict and confute;  nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse;  but to weigh and consider.  (Francis Bacon)
4.   Never fall in love with your hypothesis.  (Peter Medawar)
5.   It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.  Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.  (Arthur Conan Doyle)
6.   A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.  (Francis Crick)
7.   The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that is most interesting.  (Richard Feynman)
8.   To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.  (Charles Darwin)
9.   It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.  It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.  (Mark Twain)
10.  Ignorance is preferable to error;  and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.  (Thomas Jefferson)
11.  All truth passes through three stages.  First, it is ridiculed, second, it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.  (Arthur Schopenhauer)
    —    Peter Surrock
From his book:  “AKA Shakespeare:  A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question“
[Found at a site I like to visit every now and then:   http://www.brainpickings.org/
The specific post was found at:  http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/01/aka-shakespeare/
Well worth a visit…     —    kmab]
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