Pretty much the story of my life

May 11, 2013 by retrieverman

Posted in deep thought | Tagged Mark Twain | 5 Comments

on May 11, 2013 at 2:33 pm Kate Williams

Mark Twain, guru to generations of Americans
on May 11, 2013 at 9:11 pm Pai

Seriously, that’s exactly how it goes. The more you learn, the less the world appears black and white.
on May 12, 2013 at 1:20 am DesertWindHounds

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.”

Richard Feynman

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/27/richard-feynman-on-the-role-of-scientific-culture-in-modern-society/
on May 12, 2013 at 12:05 pm Jen Robinson

Mark Twain’s idea of “education” was not mainstream.
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards.”
– Following the Equator, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar
on May 13, 2013 at 6:54 am bearcoatpei

It’s better to live with uncertainty than to live your whole life in Zebraland as an insufferable bore. I think… well, I’m about 96% sure on that at this moment in time.

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