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“Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.”

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Rosemary Verey was an esteemed British writer known for her profound understanding of nature and gardening. Her works combined literature and visual art, profoundly influencing modern garden design. more

“When people ask me what philosophy is, I say philosophy is what you do when you don't know what the right questions are yet. Once you get the questions right, then you go answer them, and that's typically not philosophy, that's one science or another. Anywhere in life where you find that people aren't quite sure what the right questions to ask are, what they're doing, then, is philosophy.”

People Knows Philosophy Asks Answers Ask Me Right Questions

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Every time that a man who is not an absolute fool presents you with a question he considers very problematic after giving it careful thought, distrust those quick answers that come to the mind of someone who has considered it only briefly or not at all. These answers are usually simplistic views lacking in consistency, which explain nothing, or which do not bear examination.”

Men Giving Mind Answers Views Fool Bears Absolutes Careful Lacking Consistency Distrust Examination

Book:St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

Source: St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

“I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.”

Should Made Done Understood Should Have Math Engineering Rigs

Author:Jamie Hyneman

“Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn how to walk, talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends, even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to have evolved.”

Trying Mind Humans Children Body School Remember Reading Language Walks Technology Written Objects Personality Skills Tasks Harder Species Wide Human Mind Arithmetic Knack Written Language

Author:Steven Pinker

“The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.”

Needs Humans Purpose Universe Human Beings Discovery

Book:The Contemporary and His Soul

Source: The Contemporary and His Soul

“It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.”

Thinking Giving Facts Easy Plans Design Creation Ignorance Expression Unity Explanation Etc

Book:On the Origin of Species

Source: On the Origin of Species

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