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“I am completely opposed to the spirit of this age, because it promotes the neglect of thought…
Today there is not only a neglect of thought but an actual distrust or depreciation of it. The organized political, social, and religious groups of our time are bent on inducing the individual to take up uncritically ready-made beliefs rather than
Albert Schweitzer
Technopoly, Neil postman
Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis and
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“There was always hope that in talk, talk, talk he could alter the past, conjure the future, and impose an estimable image of himself upon the present.”
Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis and Quotes on Models and Their Uses
Chesterton, Orthodoxy
It willingly acquiesces if told false information
It hurt me to think that we never acknowledge the absolutely mysterious character of Nature, but always speak so confidently of explaining her, whereas all that we have really done is to go into fuller and more complicated descriptions, which only make the mysterious more mysterious than ever.
Albert Schweitzer
For the perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them;
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
that glorious vision of doing good, which is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds,
Charles Dickens • A Tale of Two Cities
It is still in some strange way considered unpractical to open up inquiries about anything by asking what it is.