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Henry Louis Mencken | And what is a good citizen?

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“And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.” Henry Louis Mencken | Henry Louis Mencken, usually known as HL Mencken in American, was an American writer and journalist, literary critic, columnist,…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson | no longer invoke your senses to judge what makes sense

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“So, what you learn when you study science in general, but astrophysics especially, is that you no longer invoke your senses to judge what makes sense, or you no longer invoke your personal philosophies to judge what should be true. The universe is what it is, and it really doesn’t care about your senses.” Neil deGrasse Tyson “Was man also lernt, wenn man Wissenschaft im Allgemeinen und Astrophysik im Besonderen studiert, ist, dass man sich nicht mehr auf seine Sinne beruft, um zu beurteilen, was Sinn macht, oder dass man…

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Alan Hirshfeld | the pendulum of belief had swung irreversibly to the Copernican side

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“In Newton’s day, the Ptolemaic system and the Keplerian version of the Copernican system were taught side by side in the universities of the world. But the pendulum of belief had swung irreversibly to the Copernican side. In the minds of most scientists, the heliocentric universe had become fact…Yet there remained a crucial missing element in what was otherwise a complete and compelling picture of the universe: Not one shred of indisputable observational proof existed that the Earth moved through space.Here then was the holy grail of many an astronomer….

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Carl Sagan | Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking

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“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreshadowing of an America in the time of my children or grandchildren – when the United States is a service and information economy; when Almost all major manufacturing industries have moved to other countries; when terrible technological powers are in the hands of too few, and no one representing the public interest can understand the issues; when people have lost the ability to set their own agenda. Lost or deliberately questioned by those…

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Fred Hoyle | They defend the old theories

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“They defend the old theories by complicating things to the point of incomprehensibility.” Fred Hoyle | British Mathematician and Astronomer “Sie verteidigen die alten Theorien, indem sie die Dinge bis zur Unverständlichkeit verkomplizieren.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Frederick Taylor Gates | the people yield themselves with perfect docility

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“In our dreams we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our moulding hand. The present education conventions made from our minds and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists,…

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Michio Kaku | in my field, uses the so-called Scientific Method

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“In Science, we always say that you make observations you have a theory you make more observations and it’s a very very tedious process… WRONG! Nobody that I know of in my field, uses the so-called Scientific Method. In our field, it’s by the seat of your pants, it’s leaps of logic, it’s GUESSWORK.” Dr. Michio Kaku “In der Wissenschaft wird immer gesagt dass man Beobachtungen macht, man hat eine Theorie man macht Beobachtungen und es ist ein sehr sehr langweiliger Prozess. Falsch! Niemand den ich kenne in meiner Umfeld…

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Papst Pius XII | Big Bang – Creation – Science

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“In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial ‘Fiat lux’ Let there be light uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of the chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies … Hence, creation took place in time, therefore, there is a Creator, God exists. Although it is neither explicit nor complete, this is the reply we were…

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Noam Chomsky | Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity

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“Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that’s institutional, but occasionally you get a spark, somebody’ll challenge your mind, make you think and so on, and that has a tremendous effect you just reach all sorts of people. Of course if you do it you may very have problems, you have to tread the narrow line. There are plenty of people who don’t want students to think, they’re afraid of the crisis of democracy. If people start thinking you get all these problems that I quoted before. They…

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Bertrand Russell | they are made stupid by education

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“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.” Bertrand Russell | Eine Geschichte der westlichen Philosophie “Die Menschen werden unwissend geboren, nicht dumm; sie werden durch Erziehung dumm gemacht.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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George Bernard Shaw | We are more gullible and superstitious today

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“We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.” George Bernard Shaw “Heutzutage sind wir viel leichtgläubiger und abergläubischer, als wir es im Mittelalter waren und ein Beispiel für unsere Leichtgläubigkeit ist der weitverbreitete Glaube, dass…

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Dr. Erik Verlinde | For me gravity doesn’t exist

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“We’ve known for a long time gravity doesn’t exist, it’s time to yell it.” Dr. Erik Verlinde (“For me gravity doesn’t exist,” said Dr. Verlinde, who was recently in the United States to explain himself. Not that he can’t fall down, but Dr. Verlinde is among a number of physicists who say that science has been looking at gravity the wrong way and that there is something more basic, from which gravity “emerges,” the way stock markets emerge from the collective behavior of individual investors or that elasticity emerges from…

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Dr. Tim O’Shea | The shackles of mental control

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“The shackles of mental control, perceptual filtering and cultural conditioning are harder to throw off today than ever before. We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever seen. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our entire consciousness seems to be subtly and relentlessly erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely controlled. It is an exhaustive and endless task to constantly explain to people how most things of their everyday wisdom are scientifically planted in the public consciousness via…

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Dr. Rudolph Virchow | If I could live my life over again

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“If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that germs seek their natural habitat-diseased tissue-rather than being the cause of dead tissue. In other words, mosquitoes seek the stagnant water, but do not cause the pool to become stagnant.” Dr. Rudolph Virchow (dem Vater der modernen Pathologie) “Wenn ich mein Leben noch einmal leben könnte, würde ich es dem Beweis widmen, dass Keime ihren natürlichen Lebensraum – krankes Gewebe – suchen und nicht die Ursache von totem Gewebe sind. Mit anderen Worten: Mücken suchen…

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Isaac Newton | so great an absurdity that

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“[…]that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.” Isaac Newton (In einem Brief an Dr. Bentley vom 25. Februar 1692) “[…] dass ein entfernter Körper auf einen anderen durch ein Vakuum ohne die Zwischenschaltung von etwas anderem…

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Jordan Maxwell | Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does

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“Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does. Banks do not loan money, governments are not empowered to protect you, the police department is not there to serve you, institutions of higher learning, colleges and educational institutes, are not there to educate you. The entire superstructure of civilization in the Western world is a combination of brilliantly put together and planned, well-planned, schemes to direct the minds of the people in such a way as to serve their masters.” Jordan Maxwell “Nichts in dieser Welt funktioniert so,…

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Maximilien de Robespierre | The secret of liberty

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“The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance.” Maximilien de Robespierre “Das Geheimnis der Freiheit liegt in der Bildung, während das Geheimnis der Tyrannei darin besteht, die Menschen dumm zu halten.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Karl Jaspers | To be scientific, that is to know what one knows and what one does not know

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“To be scientific, that is to know what one knows and what one does not know; unscientific is dogmatic knowledge. To be scientific is to know with reasons; to accept ready-made opinions is unscientific. Scientific is the knowledge with the consciousness of the respectively determined limits of the knowledge; unscientific is all total knowledge, as if one knew in the whole. Scientific is boundless criticism and self-criticism, the advancing questioning; unscientific is the concern that doubt could paralyze. Scientific is the methodical course, which step by step on the ground…

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Fred Hoyle | Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside

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“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available…a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.“ Fred Hoyle (britische Astronom) “Wenn Menschen Bilder aus dem Weltraum von der Erde sehen, wird das Leben auf der Erde nie mehr so sein, wie es einmal war.“ Variante; “Sobald ein Foto der Erde, das von außen aufgenommen wurde, verfügbar ist, wird eine neue Idee, die so mächtig ist wie keine andere in der Geschichte, freigesetzt werden.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Norbert W. Bolz | All the notable experts

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“All the notable experts support government policy because you only become a notable expert if you support government policy.” Norbert W. Bolz ist ein deutscher Medien- und Kommunikationstheoretiker, Buchautor sowie Designwissenschaftler. Bis zu seiner Emeritierung im Jahr 2018 lehrte er als Professor für Medienwissenschaften an der TU Berlin “Alle namhaften Experten unterstützen die Regierungspolitik, weil man nur zum namhaften Experten wird, wenn man die Regierungspolitik unterstützt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Richard Dreyfuss | Television is hypnotic, and it hides among

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“Television is hypnotic, and it hides among the furniture of your living room. It doesn’t reveal itself, but it distorts everything.” Richard Dreyfuss “Der Fernseher ist hypnotisierend und versteckt sich zwischen den Möbeln Ihres Wohnzimmers. Es gibt sich nicht zu erkennen, aber es verzerrt alles.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Adolphe Ferrière | And they created the school as the devil commanded.

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“And they created the school as the devil commanded. The child loves nature, so he was locked in four walls. He can not sit without moving, so he was forced into immobility. He likes to work with his hands, and he began to teach theories and ideas. He likes to talk – he was told to remain silent. He seeks to understand – he was commanded to learn by heart. He would like to explore and search for knowledge himself, but he was given them in ready form. And then…

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Plato | Strange times are these in which we live

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“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool” Plato (Zitat wird angezweifelt) “Seltsame Zeiten sind dies, in denen wir leben, da Alt und Jung Schulen der Unwahrheit durchlaufen. Und der Einzelne, der es wagt, die Wahrheit auszusprechen, wird sofort als Irrer und Narr abgestempelt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Arthur Schopenhauer | What the herd hates most

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“What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do.” Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860), deutscher Philosoph “Was die Herde am meisten hasst, ist derjenige, der anders denkt; es ist nicht so sehr die Meinung selbst, sondern die Kühnheit, selbst denken zu wollen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson | I’m a fan of what Mark Twain said

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“I’m a fan of what Mark Twain said, he said; Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” Neil deGrasse Tyson “Ich bin ein Fan dessen, was Mark Twain sagte, er sagte; Holen Sie sich zuerst Ihre Fakten, und dann können Sie sie so weit verzerren, wie Sie möchten” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…