“No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.” StarsTaughtTaught Us Author:James F. Cooper
“Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.” StoriesFatherStarsCenturyDangerHumilityTaughtSonHugeKingsHeroLoversDramaAncientExpandingTaught UsHubrisFather And SonStar Crossed LoversPrimacyMartyredPantheon Author:Tom Hiddleston
“The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey, of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.” WayImportantWarSchoolStarsImaginationVisionFourJourneyTaughtNightmareEpisodesJumpingContinuityChronology Author:Simon Schama
“To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely one of nine planets circling one of billions of stars. From biology we learned that humans were not specially created by God but evolved along with tens of millions of other species.” HumansSelfEarthUniverseStarsMillionsTaughtPlanetsSpeciesBillionsAstronomyNineDramaticBiologyTaught UsCenter Of The UniverseDramatic Change Author:Jared Diamond
“I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.” MenWorldYearsAgeStarsEasyOpinionTelevisionIgnoranceTaughtLessonsTenMassForgivingRememberedGutsGrandmotherOne ManSweatMy GrandmotherSkullsTreason Author:Robert A. Heinlein