"If you profess wear the badge "Teacher, Instructor, Professor, Educator" it is your obligation to understand the conduits of communication that are necessary to enlighten your audience. And...not every student can use the same conduit for enlightenment." Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Friday, June 15, 2007
Quote for the Day: Neil deGrasse Tyson
"If you profess wear the badge "Teacher, Instructor, Professor, Educator" it is your obligation to understand the conduits of communication that are necessary to enlighten your audience. And...not every student can use the same conduit for enlightenment." Neil deGrasse Tyson
Monday, March 19, 2007
Quote for Today
From an anonymous poster on a Formula-1 Discussion Forum:
“Why do people insist on being treated the same, while going out of their way to make sure that we understand and embrace their differences, while at the same time, being offended when anyone acknowledges that difference?”
“Why do people insist on being treated the same, while going out of their way to make sure that we understand and embrace their differences, while at the same time, being offended when anyone acknowledges that difference?”
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Faith or faith?
Quote for the Day:
"...when [SOMEONE] says "I have faith in god" - it is nothing like the same thing that religious people mean when they say they have the same faith. No, [SOMEONE'S] faith in god is quite simply a faith in being able to recognize the best human potential that exists in the particular human agent, also exists in all human agents regardless of their "other beliefs." But this is the basic hope of the atheist, we all have this sort of "faith" that the best aspects of who we are (intellectually, sensually, emotionally, aesthetically, empathically) as individuals are also present in every human being on every corner of this planet. (Calling this hope "god" is a deceptive ploy aimed at provoking alarm amongst the humanists, and also it is a vain attempt to put oneself "above" everyone else by claiming for an authority where no such external thing exists.) "
Shamelessly quoted from:
http://www.samharris.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4631&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30
Thanks to poster Canzen.
"...when [SOMEONE] says "I have faith in god" - it is nothing like the same thing that religious people mean when they say they have the same faith. No, [SOMEONE'S] faith in god is quite simply a faith in being able to recognize the best human potential that exists in the particular human agent, also exists in all human agents regardless of their "other beliefs." But this is the basic hope of the atheist, we all have this sort of "faith" that the best aspects of who we are (intellectually, sensually, emotionally, aesthetically, empathically) as individuals are also present in every human being on every corner of this planet. (Calling this hope "god" is a deceptive ploy aimed at provoking alarm amongst the humanists, and also it is a vain attempt to put oneself "above" everyone else by claiming for an authority where no such external thing exists.) "
Shamelessly quoted from:
http://www.samharris.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4631&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30
Thanks to poster Canzen.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Quote for Today
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -Phillip K. Dick
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