Both scientists and cows are free to go where they choose as long as they do not go outside of the fence.
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The first step to finding truth is creating the space for it. Then it comes and finds you.
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Reductionist science is not the way to understand a fluid universe.
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The research work of an average scientist has the same impact on technology as peeing in the ocean. What rises the tide of technology is having a lot of scientists doing it.
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Specialization in science has created a reductionist culture where the smallest pixels in a complex picture are studied individually. The question being asked reduces to whether or not a particular pixel is black or white. As a result, few see the whole picture nor receive a reward for doing so. In effect, scholarship is transformed into one of the greatest swindles of the age.
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Specialization in science has created a whole new class of idiot savant. Some of my science colleagues know a lot about the smallest of things, yet can't cook toast.
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College is where you go to pay for what is normally free, but what you wouldn't buy if you weren't seeking a benefit that doesn't have much to do with what you were offered.
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Dear Darwin: If you want to find the missing link, it's out shopping at Walmart.
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Mark Twain advised not to let your schooling get in the way of your education. Going further, I've learned that schooling always costs money, but education is free.
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Never outsource to others your discernment of truth or the search for wisdom.
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A long time ago, philosophy got divorced from science, took sole ownership of what was valuable in the marriage, and became a tyrant.
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New orthodoxy is often be the same as the old, albeit dressed up in a better disguise.
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When you want to understand the universe, you will have to go beyond science.
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If you took the average American today and removed all of the vanity, greed, and self-indulgence, what would remain is an empty shell that runs on hormones and high-fructose corn syrup.
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The cost of a free public education is much higher than most graduates are capable of imagining.
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The first thing a modern slave can do to be free is turn up the gain on the bullshit detector.
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A farmer will never tell cows the truth. Cows don't want to know the truth and they wouldn't understand if they were told. It's worse for many humans because, unlike cows, they get really annoyed at hearing the truth.
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Saying that nature isn't intelligent is saying that you aren't intelligent.
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It takes a village to make tyranny acceptable because no would-be tyrant can do it alone.
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Nature seems to respect choice of the undeserving. If someone doesn't want to know, they don't.
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My most significant accomplishment over the past several years is losing my faith in the infallibility of science.
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Organization is a but a token of creativity.
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The mind takes and the heart gives
In this duality we live
So take a stroll all alone
And know your way back home.
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