I’m supposed to do some work, but my thoughts are jumping around the world. The weather outside is frightful: after an Easter week-end with temperatures of 10 C and over, today we’re close to 0, it’s snowing and the wind is pushing the window toward me. And I’m thinking of a woman. Maybe more.. Read more »
There is a relatively recently discovered cave in France that has some astounding prehistoric paintings on its walls, most likely the oldest in the world. It also has, as most caves, a high concentration of the toxic Radon gas. Read more »
A spat of sex news have recently awaken me from my innocent slumber. Most are disturbing, some are interesting and some - I already forgot. Read more »
There's a lot to say on this subject, but for the moment, I would rather mention only the recent CTV documentary "The Decline in Civility". Read more »
Brigitte Bardot makes again headlines in her fight to put animals above people. Her fascist past notwithstanding, this is a good opportunity to take a look at the animal rights movement. Read more »
Most people who travel extensively through Europe will inevitably come to the conclusion that most German people they meet seem to still feel, five decades post-Holocaust, a sense of collective guilt for their parents’ and grandparents’ crimes. I always wondered where is that coming from. Read more »
I would like to present to you 2 awesome condensations of ideas seen on TVO, Ontario's public television: one is a Hancock Lecture by Professor Jordan Peterson on the Necessity of Virtue, the second is an interview with Comedian Russell Peters concerning is autobiography. Read more »
A very recent debate hosted by TVO reminded me of Fukuyama’s famous essay. The plan is to summarize it and eventually discuss it. Read more »
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett
To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave. Frederick Baily (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?" Erwin Chargaff
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. Robert A. Heinlein
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Ray Bradbury
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Arthur M. Schlesinger
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' Isaac Asimov
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. Heinrich Heine
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry B. Adams
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. Carl Sagan
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. Robert A. Heinlein
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. Aristotle
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Richard Dawkins
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. Jean Rostand
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. Isaac Asimov
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. Cornelius Vanderbilt
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes
Education is the transmission of civilization. Will Durant
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut. John L. Phillips I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. David Byrne
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. Daniel J. Boorstin
