Learning, science, reason, and the intellectual life; theories and their limits; education and the pursuit of understanding.
- Book I Ain't Read Abraham Lincoln
My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
- Numbers Have Many Charms Charles Babbage
Numbers have many charms, unseen by vulgar eyes, and only discovered to the unwearied and respectful sons of Art. Sweet joy may arise from such contemplations.
- If God Were Indeed a Human Projection Herman Bavinck
If ‘God’ were indeed a human projection or creation, a human effort to explain reality now known to us via science, or a means of providing security, comfort, and …
- Defilement of Processed Food Robert Wolke
It seems that some people take the word refined as an indication that we humans have somehow defied the law of Nature by having the audacity to remove some undesirable …
- Mortimer Adler on When to Agree or Disagree Mortimer J. Adler
Do not say you agree, disagree, or suspend judgment, until you can say, ‘I understand.’
- Einstein on the Expected Chaos Albert Einstein
Well, a priori, one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by mind in any way. There in lies the weakness of the positivists and professional atheists.
- Calvin on Doctrine and Life John Calvin
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue, but of the life; is not apprehended by the intellect and memory merely, like other branches of learning; but it is received only …
- Calvin on Astronomy John Calvin
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.
- Feynman on Knowledge Richard Feynman
You can know the name of the bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You’ll only know …
- Love Builds Up Augustine of Hippo
Never stop reflecting on that maxim of the apostle, ‘Knowledge puffs up, love builds up.’
- America's Answer to Intractable Problems Neil Postman
America’s answer to any intractable problem is schools.
- Extreme Mental Modesty G.K. Chesterton
We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.
- God's Bidding Augustine of Hippo
God bids us to do what we cannot, that we may know what we ought to seek from Him.