“If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.” IfsKindChildrenIdeasSoulDoneJobsPurposeImaginationNaturalDesignAnd LoveMathematicsCuriosityPatternsCome UpContemporaryCrushDestroyingMechanismBeing DoneNatural Curiosity Author:Paul Lockhart
“The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions.” WorldFirstsPhilosophyScienceCausesNaturalEffectsArguingResolveMechanismHypothesisNatural PhilosophyFeigning Book:Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae exstant omnia Source: Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae exstant omnia
“anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.” WritingNaturalCommonSocietySubjectsTheoryEvolutionMechanismSelectionNatural SelectionDescentSpeciation Author:Ernst Mayr
“As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.” WorldWayYearsCountryWould BeEarthChristianBeliefNaturalAtheismTeachingStudentsEvolutionPoliticianEvidenceWesternPositive AtheismOne WayReasonableHospitalsMechanismPropositionsSelectionControversialReconcileNatural SelectionBelief In GodDeductionsDenominationsScandinaviansChristian DenominationsJay Gould Author:Katha Pollitt
“An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.” LongStatesSocialNaturalMoralEconomicAbuseMechanismEconomic SystemsErosion Book:When Corporations Rule the World Source: When Corporations Rule the World
“What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.” Has BeensNaturalMajorsOddBiologyMechanismDiscoveringSelectionAdaptationNatural SelectionFundamentalistEvolutionary Biology Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.” HumansNaturalHuman BeingsResultsEnvironmentFateSocietyDirectorsMechanismSoleNatural EnvironmentDemolition Author:Karl Polanyi