"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all." -- Peter McWilliams
"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest." -- William Hazlitt
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree." -- Charles Baudelaire
The last one is fantastic!
ReplyDeleteDavid Cote, CEO of Honeywell International, and President Obama might be interested in the second quote. "We have to make math and science cool again in the U.S." The intelligent design/evolution debate hasn't dimmed in its controversy--quite the opposite--but the controversy IS NOT TAUGHT in the schools. If it were, you can bet some teenage heads would raise.
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