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Isaac Newton | so great an absurdity that

“[…]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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Dr. Rudolph Virchow | If I could live my life over again

“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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George Bernard Shaw | We are more gullible and superstitious today

“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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Bertrand Russell | they are made stupid by education

“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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Plato | Strange times are these in which we live

“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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The Libertarian Pilot | rules of state power

“We were raised by people who dutifully follow the rules of state power. We were brought up to follow the rules & not question the state. But now malicious people make the rules. It’s time to teach our children something different.” The Libertarian Pilot “Wir wurden von Menschen erzogen, die brav die Regeln der Staatsmacht befolgen. Wir wurden dazu erzogen, die Regeln zu befolgen & den Staat nicht zu hinterfragen. Doch jetzt machen bösartige Menschen die Regeln. Es ist an der Zeit, unseren Kindern etwas anderes beizubringen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson | let the dark lord Satan show you the way

“Some have asked me where scientists turn after science has yielded no clear solution. I tell these people what my grandfather Charles Darwin told me: roll back your eyes, contort your body, and let the dark lord Satan show you the way” Neil deGrasse Tyson (attributed) “Manche haben mich gefragt, wohin sich Wissenschaftler wenden, wenn die Wissenschaft keine klare Lösung gefunden hat. Ich sage diesen Leuten, was mein Großvater Charles Darwin mir gesagt hat: Rollt eure Augen zurück, verdreht euren Körper und lasst euch vom dunklen Lord Satan alles zeigen”…

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Steve Jacobson | Political and economic power

“Political and economic power in the United States is concentrated in the hands of a “ruling elite” that controls most of U.S.-based multinational corporations, major communication media, the most influential foundations, major private universities and most public utilities. Founded in 1921, the Council of Foreign Relations is the key link between the large corporations and the federal government. It has been called a “school for statesmen” and “comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite – a group of men, similar in…

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Carl Sagan on the importance of science education

“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it? … Science is more than a body of knowledge, it’s a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical…

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Bertrand Russell | system of deception

“Educational systems have been developed not to impart genuine knowledge but to make the people docile to the will of the rulers. Without a sophisticated system of deception in schools, it would be impossible to maintain the appearance of democracy. It is not desired that ordinary citizens think for themselves. Because it is believed that people who think for themselves are difficult to handle. Only the elites are supposed to think. The rest are supposed to obey and follow their leaders, like a herd of mutton. This doctrine has corrupted…

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Frank Zappa | Schools train people to be ignorant

“Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don’t give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you’re just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you’re gonna…

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Thomas von Aquin | The greatest kindness

“The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.” Thomas von Aquin “Die größte Freundlichkeit, die man einem Menschen erweisen kann, besteht darin, ihn vom Irrtum zur Wahrheit zu führen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Dr Mike Yeadon | have taken as fact that viruses exist without ever reviewing the original papers

“I’m aware this two page backgrounder & experimental proposal aims to show whether or not viruses exist, focussing on SARS-CoV-2. I’m a signatory because, having given a lot of thought to the entire proposition, I now believe it’s yet another of the lies to which we’ve been subject. In the case of scientists, even those in commercial drug discovery, have taken as fact that viruses exist without ever reviewing the original papers.” Dr Mike Yeadon “Ich bin mir bewusst, dass dieser zweiseitige Hintergrundbericht und experimentelle Vorschlag darauf abzielt, zu zeigen,…

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ZUBY | One of the biggest problems with college degrees

“One of the biggest problems with college degrees is they’ve made a lot of people think they are much smarter than they truly are. This arrogance and smugness makes them dumber because they think they’re too smart to receive new information from anybody with fewer ‘credentials’.” ZUBY | Rapper. Author. Podcaster. Speaker. Coach. “One of the biggest problems with college degrees is they’ve made a lot of people think they are much smarter than they truly are. “Eines der größten Probleme mit Hochschulabschlüssen ist, dass sie viele Menschen dazu gebracht…

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Rupert Sheldrake | Scientism is where people turn science into a kind of religion

London Real: “Is that called scientism when you believe so much in the science you’ve been taught that you refuse to believe something else, and it becomes your religion in a way?” Rupert Sheldrake: “Yes, scientism is where people turn science into a kind of religion. It becomes a kind of dogmatic belief system. The irony is that a lot of people think that religion is dogmatic and science is free-thinking, but actually, in my experience, some of the most dogmatic people I know are people who’ve made science into…