Importance of College Years for Americans – Allan Bloom Quote
“The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization’s only chance to get to him.”
Allan Bloom
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Stella McCartney on Retreat and a Simpler Life
“People think I’m strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I’m going to live in the country with my horse and I’ll get a nine-to-five; I don’t need this.”
Stella McCartney
Technology Quote by Alan Kay
“Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.”
Alan Kay
Thomas Kuhn on Paradigm Shifts and Scientific Revolutions
“Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world… I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable.”
Thomas Kuhn
Quote on National Identity by Robert A. Heinlein
“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Revolutionary Transformation of Vision – Quote by Thomas Kuhn
“Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.”
Thomas Kuhn
Women and Cats Will Do as They Please – Robert A. Heinlein
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Education as an Impediment? Quote by Allan Bloom
“An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.”
Allan Bloom
Quote on Happiness and Attitude by Wilhelm von Humboldt
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.”
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Karl Popper Quote on Tolerance
“We have the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should tolerate even them whenever we can do so without running a great risk; but the risk may become so great that we cannot allow ourselves the luxury.”
Karl Popper