////////////////////////Andrew Brown, on inner voices
"Spirituality is the voice I hear that tells me what to do. Religion is when someone else's voices tell me what to do"
///////////////////////////"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
Carl Sagan
////////////////////////"I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it."
Isaac Asimov
//////////////////////////////////We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality."
Ayn Rand
//////////////////////////////////"I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything."
Thomas Henry Huxley
"It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible."
Richard Feynman
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
Stephen Hawking
///////////////////////////////////////n theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
"Pragmatism asks its usual question. 'Grant an idea or belief to be true,' it says, 'what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's value in experiential terms?'"
William James
"Knowledge is treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Lao Tzu
////////////////////////////////////"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
Albert Einstein
"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn."
Mary Catherine Bateson
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"Spirituality is the voice I hear that tells me what to do. Religion is when someone else's voices tell me what to do"
///////////////////////////"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
Carl Sagan
////////////////////////"I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it."
Isaac Asimov
//////////////////////////////////We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality."
Ayn Rand
//////////////////////////////////"I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything."
Thomas Henry Huxley
"It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible."
Richard Feynman
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
Stephen Hawking
///////////////////////////////////////n theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
"Pragmatism asks its usual question. 'Grant an idea or belief to be true,' it says, 'what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's value in experiential terms?'"
William James
"Knowledge is treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Lao Tzu
////////////////////////////////////"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
Albert Einstein
"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn."
Mary Catherine Bateson
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