Quote of the Day -- Richard Powers

Earth had two kinds of people: those who could do the math and follow the science, and those who were happier with their own truths. But in our hearts' daily practice, whatever schools we went to, we all lived as if tomorrow would be a clone of now.

-- Richard Powers, Bewilderment

Quote of the Day -- Carl Sagan

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.

-- Carl Sagan

Quote of the Day -- Barbara Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

-- Barbara Tuchman

Quote of the Day -- Rudine Sims Bishop

Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of a larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books.

-- Rudine Sims Bishop

Quote of the Day -- John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty lies not in grasping the new ideas, but rather in escaping from the old ones.

-- John Maynard Keynes

Quote of the Day -- Lisa Feldman Barrett

Social reality is a superpower that emerges from an ensemble of human brains. We exercise that power every time we treat sparkling diamonds like they have value, every time we idolize a celebrity, every time we vote in an election, and every time we don’t vote in an election. We have more control over reality than we might think. We also have more responsibility for reality than we might realize. 

-- Lisa Feldman Barrett

Quote of the Day -- Walt Whitman

Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.

-- Walt Whitman

Quote of the Day -- Marie Curie

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

-- Marie Curie

Quote of the Day -- Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. 

-- Gandhi

Quote of the Day -- James Clear

Learning is a marathon and perfection is a weighted vest.

-- James Clear

Quote of the Day -- Ursula Le Guin

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

― Ursula Le Guin

Quote of the Day -- Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.

― Albert Einstein

Quote of the Day -- Richard Dawkins

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. 

-- Richard Dawkins

Quote of the Day -- Kevin Kelly

A good question is not concerned with a correct answer. A good question cannot be answered immediately. A good question challenges existing answers. A good question is one you badly want answered once you hear it, but had no inkling you cared before it was asked. A good question creates new territory of thinking. A good question reframes its own answers. A good question is the seed of innovation in science, technology, art, politics, and business. A good question is a probe, a what-if scenario. A good question skirts on the edge of what is known and not known, neither silly nor obvious. A good question cannot be predicted. A good question will be the sign of an educated mind. A good question is one that generates many other good questions. A good question may be the last job a machine will learn to do. A good question is what humans are for. 

-- Kevin Kelly

Quote of the Day -- Carol Tavris

The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember evidence that confirms our beliefs or decisions, and to ignore, dismiss, or forget evidence that is discrepant. That's why we are all inclined to stick to a hypothesis we believe in. Science is one way of forcing us, kicking and screaming if necessary, to modify our views. 

-- Carol Tavris

Quote of the Day -- Arthur C Clarke

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. 

-- Arthur C Clarke

Quote of the Day -- H.L. Mencken

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

-- H.L. Mencken

Quote of the Day -- Robert Heinlein

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

 ― Robert A. Heinlein

Quote of the Day -- Heraclitus

Much learning does not teach understanding. 

-- Heraclitus

Quote of the Day -- Cicero

A room without books is like a body without a soul. 

-- Cicero