Knowledge Advances By a Series of Funerals


The boundaries between true intellectual disciplines are currently enforced by little more than university budgets and architecture… The real distinction we should care about — the observation of which is the sine qua non of the scientific attitude — is between demanding good reasons for what one believes and being satisfied with bad ones.

Source: www.brainpickings.org

Wisdom advances by not lamenting the dead. 

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