Re: JP Barlow, Ph.D, Social Engineering
Sarah Marr (sarah.marr@dial.pipex.com)
Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:12:54 +0100
>Kathryn Aegis wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Ira Brodsky writes:
>
>>Throw out "black and white facts," and you throw out concrete knowledge.
>
>Cling to black and white facts, and cripple your ability to move
>beyond the edifice of whatever discipline forms your base of
>knowledge.
>
>Cling to black and white facts, and find yourself stranded on a
>static bit of earth as the universe moves its processes around and past
>you.
>
>Cling to black and white facts, and watch your children take off into
>the worlds of knowledge that you now seek.
>
>Kathryn Aegis
With which I entirely agree. And would add, somewhat more prosaically:
Cling to black and white facts, and annoy an awful lot of very successful
scientists working with statistical quantum mechanics.
Sarah
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