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— Plato, The Symposium

“It would be very nice, my friend, if wisdom were like water, and flowed by contact out of a person who has more into one who has less, just as water can be made to pass through a thread of wool out of the fuller of two cups into the emptier.”. — Plato, The Symposium.

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— Plato, The Symposium

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  1. “It would be very nice, my friend, if wisdom were like water, and flowed by contact out of a person who has more into one who has less, just as water can be made to pass through a thread of wool out of the fuller of two cups into the emptier.” —Plato, The Symposium

  2. “The whole point about faith is that you do not criticize or test or marshal evidence and argument. The whole point about science and progress in science is that you do.” —Brainwise

  3. “The Summa was an instrument for the advancement of knowledge: from the beginning it was alive with discussion.” —R.W. Southern The Making of the Middle Ages “Compared with the ancients, the modern scholar is as a dwarf sitting on the shoulders of a giant.” —Bernard of Chartres

  4. “History has reasons whereof Reason knows not” —Karl Weintraub http://biology.ucsd.edu/ ~gauthier/weintraub.pdf

  5. “It would be very nice, my friend, if wisdom were like water, and flowed by contact out of a person who has more into one who has less, just as water can be made to pass through a thread of wool out of the fuller of two cups into the emptier.” —Plato, The Symposium “The whole point about faith is that you do not criticize or test or marshal evidence and argument. The whole point about science and progress in science is that you do.” —Brainwise

  6. “Consistent with individual variation in biology generally…some individuals may feel strong urges to humble themselves before a great leader or blindly follow his dictates. Others may be strongly independent and find the whole idea of worship and blind loyalty sheerly baffling.”

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