Si judicas, cognosce. — Seneca

AQQ

"I hate dealin' with stupid people, they don't know what they can't do!"

Socrates Ruggles

What the Postman Feared

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, (Penguin Books, 1986, 2005), p. xix.

AQQ: Great Art Dominates Life

"Minor art is a dream, indulged in because we can dominate it when we cannot dominate real life: great art is the domination of real life itself by our own understanding of it."

R. G. Collingwood, "Jane Austin," (1921) ; rpt. in The Philosophy of Enchantment, (2005), p. 26.

AQQ: What Libraries Do is a Secret!

"What libraries do, and what librarians can do, is the best kept secret in the world. It was probably some taxpayers who burnt the library at Alexandria."

—Socrates Ruggles

Mary Ingles Book by James Duvall, M. A.

Mary Ingles and the Escape from Big Bone Lick

Feynman: Forced to Consider History

Omni: "What about Cosmology? Dirac's suggestion that the fundamental constants change with time, or the idea that physical law was different at the instant of the Big Bang?"

Feynman: "That would open up a lot of questions. So far, physics has tried to find laws and constants without asking where they came from, but we may be approaching the point where we'll be forced to consider history."

Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (Cambridge: Persus/Helix, 1999), p. 199.