Quotes -June 21, 2011
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:56 pm
Thanks Stephen.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-- Thomas A. Edison
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
> -- Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism"
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-- Thomas A. Edison
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
> -- Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism"