Bible Question (short): the spirit of Sol'sEcclesiastes Realized |
Question (full): this compiler has tracked down those who are of the same mind as me and King Solomon the Wise, who have reached the conclusion that the highest peak of mastery of meaning is the point where you lose your grasp of meaning and all is meaningless in the infinitude of interconnectedness of everything with everything else so that you cannot command and control anything anymore (Ecclesiastes, the Holy Bible) secular support quotes from off the www excerpt www.angelo.edu faculty kboudrea cheap cheap2 scientists.htm Scientists are funny people. Not just the great ones who think they've discovered the secret of life or of the brain or of the common cold. Even ordinary day-to-day scientists are funny, because they all think that the world makes sense Most people know better. Betsy Divine , Joel E. Cohen, Absolute Zero Gravity Science Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes (1992) The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost unemployable except in a narrow area of specialization. Large numbers of students for whom the program is inappropriate are trapped in it, because the Ph.D. has become a union card required for entry into the scientific job market. Freeman Dyson, From Eros to Gaia (1992) "To Teach or Not to Teach" (1990) does anyone agree here |