they like it, they really do…
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. Charles Darwin
https://emcrit.org/tidbit/ignorance-more-frequently-begets-confidence-than/
high-level mathematics at its best
https://emcrit.org/tidbit/high-level-mathematics-at-its-best/
Neil Gaiman giving an incredible commencement speech. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
https://emcrit.org/tidbit/neil-gaiman-giving-an-incredible-commencement/
Dem Bones
dem bones; care of Gil Ross
The Email Charter
The Email Charter
Absolutely Stunning!
Absolutely Stunning!
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“Meta-analysis is to analysis what meta-physics is to physics”. –Ian Seppelt AFAIK
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You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power–he’s free again. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Ignorance
“There is nothing in this world quite so dangerous as sincere ignorance or conscientious stupidity”. Martin Luther King, JR
Paracelsus – Poison is in Everything
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy. Paracelsus
Fighting Trousers
Procrustes
The crime of Procrustes appears as common in clinical medicine as in general society. We may fit the facts to our opinions instead of our opinions to the facts. Procrustes “the stretcher” refers to a character from Greek mythology. He was a robber who lived near Eleusis in Attica. Feigning hospitality to travelers, he would […]
Hanlon’s razor
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Hanlon’s razor – aka Heinlein’s razor
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