Lampros

“When the “sacredness of property” is talked of, it should always be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species.”
― John Stuart Mill, Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy

“Hölderlin’s lines: Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst / Das Rettende auch (‘Where there is danger, that which will save us also grows’).”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

“No Child Left Behind has diminished [teachers'] sense of control of their own classroom, narrowed the focus of their jobs, and stifled pedagogical innovation.”
― James M. Lang, Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty

“Science is often characterized as a quest for truth, where truth is something absolute, which exists outside of the observer. But I view science more as a quest for understanding, where the understanding is that of the observer, the scientist. Such understanding is best gained by studying relations—relations between different ideas, relations between different phenomena; relations between ideas and phenomena. Rather than asking “How does this phenomenon work?” we ask, “How does this phenomenon resemble others with which we are familiar?” Rather than asking “Does this idea make sense?” we ask, “How does this idea resemble other ideas?”
― Robert Aumann