“..the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Yes, the real world is mysterious and sometimes frightening. But would the supernatural make it better? The real world has beauty, poetry, love and the joy of honest discovery. Isn't that enough?” ThinkingWorldMeanRealSometimesEnoughJoyDifferencesKnowingSpecialHonestEvidenceDiscoveryClaimsBelieverMysteriousReal WorldFrighteningFalsehoodLove PoetryWishful ThinkingReal WisdomBeauty Poetry Author:John Stossel
“Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.” PeopleI CanWatchesKnowingHorrorDiscoveryBunchDiscoveringKnowing What To Do Author:Kirk Hammett
“There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble with a scientist is we quickly tire of our discoveries. We hand them over to people who are not ready for them, while we go off again into the darkness of ignorance, searching for other discoveries, which will be mishandled in just the same way when the time comes.” PeopleWayUseHandsScienceDifferencesDarknessKnowingMankindIgnoranceReadyDiscoveryScientistTireNot Ready Author:Jimmy Sangster
“Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.” PeopleWritingMeanChallengesKnowingPiecesReaderPureDiscoveryArguing Author:Susan Orlean
“Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.” ThinkingInterestingKnowingDiscoveryFascinatingCheerVery InterestingPrimates Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.” EndsUnderstandingKnowingOughtDiscovery Author:Kedar Joshi
“Shall I throw away the materials and time paying homage to the perfectionist - knowing that nothing is ever perfect and also knowing that redoing yesterday is not always proceeding to tomorrow's discovery? What an eternal debate!” PerfectKnowingMaterialsTomorrowEternalDiscoveryPerfectionDebateYesterdayPerfectionistHomageProceeding Author:Oliver $