March 18, 2005

Quotes:

Some thoughts for bloggers to seriously consider

    By Jack Grant

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
   -Carl Sagan

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
   -B. F. Skinner

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
   -Steven Weinberg

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
   -William James

Posted by Jack Grant at 17:21 on 18 March 2005
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