Ron Peters

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Ron Peters is currently reading

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

by Carlo Rovelli

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William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson Jr.

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There is no worse enemy of God and Man than zeal armed with power and guided by a feeble intellect . . . The great lesson of history,” he concluded somberly, “is to keep power of life and death away from that kind of mind, the mind that ...more

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Ron’s Quotes

“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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