Sanjay

“Next time I will ..."
"From now on I will ..."
- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

“I wish" assumes that I know what is the opposite of my present experience.”
― Hugh Prather

“One of the great commandments of science is, "Mistrust arguments from authority." (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.) Too many such arguments have proved too painfully wrong. Authorities must prove their contentions like everybody else. This independence of science, its occasional unwillingness to accept conventional wisdom, makes it dangerous to doctrines less self critical, or with pretensions of certitude.”
― Carl Sagan

“They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

—written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor, 11 November 1755”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin Volume 2