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As technical people, we are apt to be preoccupied with scores, not competence...

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The key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming....(some beliefs are) fanatical not because they are "false", but because they are expressed in such a way that they can never be shown to be false.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Neil Postman

Neil Postman

Born: March 8, 1931
Died: October 5, 2003 (aged 72)
Bio: Neil Postman was a prominent American educator, media theorist and cultural critic, associated with New York University for more than forty years.
Known for:
  1. Technopoly (1992)
  2. The Disappearance of Childhood (1982)
  3. The End of Education (1996)
  4. Conscientious objections (1988)
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