Quote by Joy Reidenberg

If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief.

If you don't understand how the world works, then everything

Summary

This quote emphasizes the importance of having a basic understanding of how the world functions. It suggests that without comprehending the underlying principles at work, one is left with a sense of confusion and everything becomes inexplicable. In this state, logic becomes irrelevant and belief takes its place, as everything is seen through a lens of mystery and magic. This highlights the significance of acquiring knowledge and rational thinking in order to navigate the complexities of life.

Topics

Science Critical Thinking

By Joy Reidenberg

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Abraham Lincoln

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is o

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know th

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical princ

In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers.

Eric Butterworth

We teach that every priest shall extinguish heathendom, and

We teach that every priest shall extinguish heathendom, and forbid wilweorthunga (fountain worship), and licwiglunga (incantations of the dead), and hwata (omens), and galdra (magic), and man worship, and the abominations that men exercise in various sorts of witchcraft, and in frithspottum (peace-enclosures) with elms and other trees, and with stones, and with many phantoms.The Church's transformation of...women into the modern concept witch... http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Witch

Anon., 16th Canon Law enacted un

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a fe

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'

I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love bec

I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

George Washington

Avoiding a problem doesn't solve it.

Avoiding a problem doesn't solve it.

Bonnie Jean Thornley

Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to

Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive.

G. K. Chesterton

Alcohol/alcoholism

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the rad

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty Youth Greek Mythology

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton