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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. 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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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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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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John Herschel | In entering upon any scientific pursuit, one of the student’s first endeavours

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“In entering upon any scientific pursuit, one of the student’s first endeavours ought to be, to prepare his mind for the reception of truth, by dismissing, or at least loosening his hold on, all such crude and hastily adopted notions respecting the objects and relations he is about to examine as may tend to embarrass or mislead him.; and to strengthen himself, by something of an effort and a resolve, for the unprejudiced admission of any conclusion which shall appear to be supported by careful observation and logical argument, even…

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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…