Ron Peters

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Ron is Currently Reading

Ron Peters is currently reading

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

by Carlo Rovelli

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Book cover for Bluestockings The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

Bluestockings The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education by Jane Robinson

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A Cambridge professor who is in the habit of addressing his students most pointedly as ‘Gentlemen!’ proceeded to his lecture room on Ash Wednesday, to find only the ladies present. With head erect and eyes riveted on the opposite wall, he ...more

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Ron’s Quotes

“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”
― Martin Luther

tags: books

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“Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: politics

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding

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