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  1. Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
    -- Isaac Asimov

    #Wisdom #Quotes #IsaacAsimov #AntiIntellectualism #Democracy #Ignorance #Knowledge #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  2. Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
    -- Isaac Asimov

    #Wisdom #Quotes #IsaacAsimov #AntiIntellectualism #Democracy #Ignorance #Knowledge #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  3. Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
    -- Isaac Asimov

    #Wisdom #Quotes #IsaacAsimov #AntiIntellectualism #Democracy #Ignorance #Knowledge #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  4. Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
    -- Isaac Asimov

    #Wisdom #Quotes #IsaacAsimov #AntiIntellectualism #Democracy #Ignorance #Knowledge #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  5. Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
    -- Isaac Asimov

    #Wisdom #Quotes #IsaacAsimov #AntiIntellectualism #Democracy #Ignorance #Knowledge #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  6. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention... Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure his bite.
    -- Abraham Lincoln

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AbrahamLincoln #Conflict

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  7. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention... Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure his bite.
    -- Abraham Lincoln

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AbrahamLincoln #Conflict

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  8. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention... Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure his bite.
    -- Abraham Lincoln

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AbrahamLincoln #Conflict

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  9. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention... Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure his bite.
    -- Abraham Lincoln

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AbrahamLincoln #Conflict

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  10. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention... Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure his bite.
    -- Abraham Lincoln

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AbrahamLincoln #Conflict

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  11. It is a myth not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and a symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
    -- Irwin Edman

    #Wisdom #Quotes #IrwinEdman #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  12. Life isn’t what you’re given; it’s what you create, what you overcome, and what you achieve that makes it beautiful.
    -- Richard Feynman

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Life

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  13. Life isn’t what you’re given; it’s what you create, what you overcome, and what you achieve that makes it beautiful.
    -- Richard Feynman

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Life

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  14. Life isn’t what you’re given; it’s what you create, what you overcome, and what you achieve that makes it beautiful.
    -- Richard Feynman

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Life

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  15. Life isn’t what you’re given; it’s what you create, what you overcome, and what you achieve that makes it beautiful.
    -- Richard Feynman

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Life

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  16. Life isn’t what you’re given; it’s what you create, what you overcome, and what you achieve that makes it beautiful.
    -- Richard Feynman

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Life

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  17. My theory is that as the world improves, expectations rise even faster, leading to the persistent illusion that the world was better in the past. The only time the illusion is punctured is when a society is successfully digging out of a very big slump.
    -- Noah Smith (@Noahpinion)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #NoahSmith #Nostalgia #Progress #ThePast

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  18. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
    -- Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #MaryShelley #Hate #Love

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  19. Many engineering deadlocks have been broken by people who are not engineers at all. This is simply because perspective is more important than IQ.
    -- Nicholas Negroponte

    #Wisdom #Quotes #NicholasNegroponte #Intelligence #ProblemSolving

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  20. In a networked world, ubiquity conquers superiority -- a widely accepted technology will overwhelm even a technologically superior rival.
    -- Kevin Kell & Gary Wolf

    #Wisdom #Quotes #KevinKellGaryWolf #Technology

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  21. The unquestioning, devoted patient has been replaced by an informed skeptical consumer.
    -- Whitney Addington (AAMC 2000 Address)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #WhitneyAddington #Health #Skepticism

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  22. If a thing exists, it exists in some amount. If it exists in some amount, it can be measured.
    -- E. L. Thorndike

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ELThorndike #Proof

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  23. As more and more of our daily life moves online, we could find ourselves living in an increasingly honest world, or at least one in which lies have ever more serious consequences.
    -- Jeffrey Hancock

    #Wisdom #Quotes #JeffreyHancock #Computers #Consequences #Lies

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  24. I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.
    -- Albert Einstein

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertEinstein #Religion #Research #Science

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  25. Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RalphWaldoEmerson #Doubt #Fear #Preparation

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos