Danh ngôn của H. L. Mencken
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
Chúng ta đang ở đây và bây giờ là vậy. Hơn thế nữa, mọi kiến thức của con người đều chỉ là trăng hoa.
Tác giả: H. L. Mencken | Chuyên mục: Knowledge | Sứ mệnh: [4]
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Các câu danh ngôn khác của cùng chuyên mục: Knowledge
- The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.
- The majority of the wealth of human knowledge is owned by a few publishing companies that hoard information and make billions off licensing fees, although most scholarly articles and journals are paid for by taxpayers through government grants.
- Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
- Here is an entirely banal idea that I think has the potential to change the world: Take evidence seriously. Taking evidence seriously does not mean privileging numbers over all other forms of knowledge - theories, narratives, images. Nor does it mean the kind of radical skepticism that questions everything to the point where no action is possible.
- Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.