... the man who has the ability to invent the objects of science and the man who can judge the extent of damage or good that those objects will bring about in those who will use them are not one and the same.
Plato (428-348 BCE)
For as knowledges are now delivered, there is a kind of contract of error between the deliverer and receiver. For he that delivereth knowledge desireth to deliver it in such a form as may be best believed, and not as may be best examined; and he that receiveth knowledge desireth rather present satisfaction than expectant enquiry, and so rather not to doubt than not to err: glory making the author not to lay open his weakness, and sloth making the disciple not to know his strength.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Philosophy is written in this immense book that stands ever open before our eyes (I speak of the Universe), but it cannot be read if one does not first learn the language and recognize the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without the means of which it is humanly impossible to understand a word; without these, philosophy is confused wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Which should be posted at the head of the ATM section, IMO.
Only small minds want always to be right.
Louis XIV of France (1638-1715) Ditto.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Grant Hutchison
With apologies to the uncredited translators.
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