Knowldge Quotes

“Pain multiplies when you try to go away from it. Be with it until it goes away from you.”
― Shunya

“To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's through descent with modification driven by the Darwinian mechanism. But within a design-theoretic framework, this possibility, though not precluded, is also not the only game in town. It's possible for descent with modification instead to be driven by telic processes inherent in nature (and thus by a form of design). Alternatively, it's possible that the similarities are not due to descent at all but result from a similarity of conception, just as designed objects like your TV, radio, and computer share common components because designers frequently recycle ideas and parts. Teasing apart the effects of intelligent and natural causation is one of the key questions confronting a design-theoretic research program. Unlike Darwinism, therefore, intelligent design has no immediate and easy answer to the question of common descent.

Darwinists necessarily see this as a bad thing and as a regression to ignorance. From the design theorists' perspective, however, frank admissions of ignorance are much to be preferred to overconfident claims to knowledge that in the end cannot be adequately justified. Despite advertisements to the contrary, science is not a juggernaut that relentlessly pushes back the frontiers of knowledge. Rather, science is an interconnected web of theoretical and factual claims about the world that are constantly being revised and for which changes in one portion of the web can induce radical changes in another. In particular, science regularly confronts the problem of having to retract claims that it once confidently asserted.”
― William A. Dembski

“Mind is like government. Just as we file tax returns of all our transactions to government, we file return of all our experiences to mind.”
― Shunya

“People trying to impress each other with their philosophies are like teenagers showing off their new clothes. The philosophies are nothing but clothes of mind. The real smartness is in seeking the supreme power, not in trying to impress the waves of dust that is human beings.”
― Shunya

“Anyone can be stupid. You are not special.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“If I have learned anything, it is that intelligence and knowledge are worth little by themselves. Failing the enlightenment that goes beyond words and the world, they serve mainly to provide us with wonderful reasons for doing what we intend to do regardless.”
― Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

“Reading authentic books becomes flowers of knowledge.
Experience and vision become a fragrance of knowledge.
To discover and understand that it is insight.”
― Ehsan Sehgal