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Feynman on Science and Religion

16-Feb-10

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The following quote is from a talk by physicist Richard Feynman called The Relation of Science and Religion, which I consider a apologia of sorts:
I don’t know the answer to this central problem – the problem of maintaining the real value of religion, as a source of strength and of courage to […]

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Teaching

23-Jun-08

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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize ‘inconvenient’ facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions. And for every party opinion there are facts that are extremely inconvenient, for my own opinion no less than for others. I believe the teacher […]

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First they came…

07-Feb-07

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First they came for the hackers.
    But I never did anything illegal with my computer,
        so I didn’t speak up.
Then they came for the pornographers.
    But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway,
        so I didn’t speak up.
Then they came for the anonymous remailers.
    But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from […]

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Castles In the Air

31-Jan-07

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
–Henry David Thoreau.
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