08192019 Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. 
08192019 Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
  • August 16, 2019
08062019 I believe that one of the principle ways in which we acquire, hold, and digest information, is via narrative — so I hope you will understand when the remarks I make begin with the first sentence of our childhood — that we all remember — the phrase: “Once upon a time.” 
08062019 I believe that one of the principle ways in which we acquire, hold, and digest information, is via narrative — so I hope you will understand when the remarks I make begin with the first sentence of our childhood — that we all remember — the phrase: “Once upon a time.”
  • August 6, 2019
08012019 It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. 
08012019 It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
  • July 31, 2019
07312019 Selfishness is blind. 
07312019 Selfishness is blind.
  • July 29, 2019
07302019 Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. 
07302019 Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
  • July 29, 2019
07292019 Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. 
07292019 Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
  • July 26, 2019
07262019 As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life. 
07262019 As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.
  • July 25, 2019