QotD: Isaac Asimov on One Unintended Consequence of Democracy

Posts from This Journal “knowledge” Tag

• QotD: Don't Try to Answer Unanswerable Questions

  To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: This skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. — Ursula…

• QotD: Democracy

  Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. --H.L. Mencken One fifth of the people are…

• QotD: Harari on Modern Science

  ...modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three critical ways: a. The willingness to admit ignorance. Modern science is…

• Atul Gawande on the Mistrust of Science

  THE MISTRUST OF SCIENCE By Atul Gawande , JUNE 10, 2016 The following was delivered as the commencement address at the California…

• QotD: Foresight

  Foresight isn't a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating…

• QotD: Albert on Understanding It

  If you cannot explain it in simple terms, you do not understand it fully. ~Albert Einstein

• QotD: NdGT on Ignorance

  Does it mean, if you don’t understand something, and the community of physicists don’t understand it, that means God did it?... If…

• Word of the Day: AGNOTOLOGY

  I am an agnotologist, no doubt. That is to say, I am fascinated with all that we do not know, with the gray areas and uncertainties of life, death,…

• QotD: Nataraja

  When Shiva the Great Yogin chooses to become the Lord of the Dance, Nataraja, the universe appears as Consciousness in its most ecstatic forms:…