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  • The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Media Quotes
  • Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Courage Quotes , Ignorance Quotes
  • Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Circles Quotes
  • The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Nicolson Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Views Quotes