“Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous”
― Bette A. Stevens, Amazing Matilda: A Monarch's Tale
― Bette A. Stevens, Amazing Matilda: A Monarch's Tale
“both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold”
― Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
― Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
“We cannot rest until each of us would be satisfied with randomly
assigning our own children to any public school in the nation.”
― Jason Kamras
― Jason Kamras
“War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State, and Economy
― Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State, and Economy
“In the collision between the remoteness and purity of the
rainforest realms and the crassness of consumer culture, the difference
is so extreme that for the most part there has been no authentic or
practical method for this medicine system as traditionally practiced to
integrate and adapt to the changing times.”
― Jonathon Miller Weisberger, Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
― Jonathon Miller Weisberger, Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife
nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed
aberration for our species? As ill-suited to our evolved tendencies as
corsets, chastity belts, and suits of armor? ...a distorted and
distorting family structure inappropriate for our species?”
― Christopher Ryan
― Christopher Ryan
“To me it was plain silly. It is so obvious that life works in
terms of species rather than individuals. The individual just has to be
born, to develop to the point at which it can procreate, and then to
fall away into death to make way for its successors, and humans are no
exception whatever they may fancy.”
― Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End
― Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End
“In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I
am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is
alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Maine
could instantly send a message to a man in Texas, Thoreau asked, "But
what do they have to say to each other?" In asking this question, to
which no serious interest was paid, Thoreau was directing attention to
the psychological and social meaning of the telegraph, and in particular
to its capacity to change the character of information -- from the
personal and regional to the impersonal and global.”
― Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood
― Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood
“doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct”
― Kathryn Schulz
― Kathryn Schulz
“It is inconceivable that our mind does not change according to where we might be, and how we perceived in it.”
― Tsan-Kuo Chang
― Tsan-Kuo Chang
“Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.”
― Edgar Douglas Adrian
― Edgar Douglas Adrian
“[F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than
vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am
sufficiently precise. They will have much more difficulty showing by
investigation what, precisely, I mean if I am vague. I hope not to be
forced to weasel out with 'But I didn’t really mean that.' Social
theorists should prefer to be wrong rather than misunderstood. Being
misunderstood shows sloppy theoretical work.”
― Arthur L. Stinchcombe
― Arthur L. Stinchcombe
“In so far as he [sic] is concerned with liberal, that is to say
liberating, education, his public role has two goals: What he ought to
do for the individual is to turn personal troubles and concerns into
social issues and problems open to reason – his aim is to help the
individual become a self-educating man, who only then would be
reasonable and free. What he ought to do for the society is to combat
all those forces which are destroying genuine publics ... his aim is to
help build and to strengthen self-cultivating publics.”
― C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination
― C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination
“I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who
stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.”
― Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
― Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
“Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You
troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder,
rumbles its dull way toward me. It is I who must take the step.
Through the fire. And come unto you.”
― Caryl Phillips, Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11
― Caryl Phillips, Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11
“Since Ivy League admissions data is a notoriously classified
commodity, when when Harvard officials said in previous years that
alumni kids were just better, you had to take their word. But then
federal investigators came along and pried open those top-secret files.
The Harvard guys were lying.
This past fall, after two years of study, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found that, far from being more qualified or equally qualified, the average admitted legacy at Harvard between 1981 and 1988 was significantly LESS qualified than the average admitted nonlegacy. Examining admissions office ratings on academics, extracurriculars, personal qualities, recommendations, and other categories, the OCR concluded that "with the exception of the athletic rating, [admitted] nonlegacies scored better than legacies in ALL areas of comparison."
In his recent book, "Preferential Policies", Thomas Sowell argues that doling out special treatment encourages lackluster performance by the favored and resentment from the spurned. His far-ranging study flits from Malaysia to South Africa to American college campuses. Legacies don't merit a word.”
― John Larew
This past fall, after two years of study, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found that, far from being more qualified or equally qualified, the average admitted legacy at Harvard between 1981 and 1988 was significantly LESS qualified than the average admitted nonlegacy. Examining admissions office ratings on academics, extracurriculars, personal qualities, recommendations, and other categories, the OCR concluded that "with the exception of the athletic rating, [admitted] nonlegacies scored better than legacies in ALL areas of comparison."
In his recent book, "Preferential Policies", Thomas Sowell argues that doling out special treatment encourages lackluster performance by the favored and resentment from the spurned. His far-ranging study flits from Malaysia to South Africa to American college campuses. Legacies don't merit a word.”
― John Larew
“What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things!”
― Dr. Vivencio Ballano
― Dr. Vivencio Ballano
“La science sociale di XIXe siecle nous a legue un terrible
heritage, l'idee que els processus se divisent en trois champs separes:
le politique, l'economique et le socioculturel.”
― Immanuel Wallerstein, Unthinking Social Science: Limits Of 19Th Century Paradigms
― Immanuel Wallerstein, Unthinking Social Science: Limits Of 19Th Century Paradigms
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