by E.O. | Jul 5, 2024 | Quotes and Quips
“The evidence that phones in pockets interfere with learning is now so clear that in August 2023, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) issued a report that addressed the adverse effects that digital technologies, and phones in...
by E.O. | Jul 4, 2024 | Quotes and Quips
“Many of the trees they planted [in Biosphere 2] to create a rain-forest ecosystem grew rapidly but then fell over before reaching maturity. The designers had not realized that young trees need wind to grow properly. When the wind blows, it bends the tree, which tugs...
by E.O. | Jul 3, 2024 | Quotes and Quips
“I would like to add a relatively modern justification for the indispensability of free speech: troubleshooting. It’s what technicians call the process of determining the cause of a problem in order to fix it. It’s an honest examination of a system and its faults...
by E.O. | Jul 2, 2024 | Quotes and Quips
“A society that puts equality—in the sense of equality of outcome—ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people...
by E.O. | Jul 1, 2024 | Quotes and Quips
Fixation on sex is no perversion; the failure to recognize the connections between sex, reproduction, and commitment is the perversion. – E.O.
by E.O. | Jun 30, 2024 | Quotes and Quips
“We are all at school, and our great Teacher writes many a bright lesson on the black-board of affliction.” – Charles Spurgeon
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