Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
-Russell Baker, columnist and author (14 Aug 1925-2019)
2023/08/14
2023/08/09
Todays Thought
The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.
-Jean Piaget, psychologist (9 Aug 1896-1980)
2023/08/07
Todays Thought
No amount of belief makes something a fact.
-James Randi, magician and skeptic (b. 7 Aug 1928)
2023/08/03
Todays Thought
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
-P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014)
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