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Marvels

David — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:26:32 +0000

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. — George Washington

Despair as Pride

David — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:33:42 +0000

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. Despair is the ultimate development of a pride so great and so stiff-necked that it selects the absolute misery of damnation rather than accept happiness from the hands of God and thereby acknowledge … Continue reading →

Normal

David — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:33:00 +0000

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. — Douglas Adams, “The Salmon of Doubt”

Discriminating

David — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:31:19 +0000

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. — Chief Justice John Roberts (Parents Involved In Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1 [June 28, 2007])

Scientific Religion

David — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:33:29 +0000

So far neither Dark Energy nor the Multiverse seem to generate falsifiable hypotheses, removing them from science and relegating them to religion. I cheerfully admit that in the absence of evidence I prefer the religion I grew up with to these new ones, but perhaps I am insufficiently flexible in my views.— Jerry Pournelle

Good or Better?

David — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:08:47 +0000

When everything is good enough, it takes work to discover what’s better, and better is often a matter of whim and preference anyway. — Jerry Pournelle

Real Science

David — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:32:40 +0000

Real science looks at data, makes falsifiable predictions, and attempts to falsify or confirm those predictions. The rest is ‘other forces’ at work. — Jerry Pournelle

Quotations

David — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:40:18 +0000

The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine. — Abraham Lincoln

Science

David — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:37:31 +0000

When everything is evidence of the thing you want to believe, it might be time to stop pretending you’re all about science. – Ann Althouse

Hands

David — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:25:09 +0000

I would fain be to the eternal God what a man’s hand is to a man. — Theologia Germanica