“Andrew has built an impressive record of success, leading initiatives that have made Dow a large and profitable company that is positioned for further success in diversified global markets, ... Nearly two-thirds of his almost 30 year career at Dow has been spent in the Asia Pacific region, giving him a tremendous depth of knowledge that will be immensely valuable to us as we position ourselves for continued growth in this and other regions of the globe. We look forward to his contributions.”
“Andrew has built an impressive record of success, leading initiatives that have made Dow a large and profitable company that is positioned for further success in diversified global markets, ... Nearly two-thirds of his almost 30-year career at Dow has been spent in the Asia Pacific region, giving him a tremendous depth of knowledge that will be immensely valuable to us as we position ourselves for continued growth in this and other regions of the globe. We look forward to his contributions.”
“[Rebick said it's time for younger women to take over the fight for equality, adding she wrote Ten Thousand Roses out of fear the history of the women's movement in Canada would get lost. Following the rise of feminism during the 1960s to 1980s,] we've seen almost a complete disappearance of the women's voice. A whole generation of women have grown up without any knowledge of the women's movement, ... There were no popular books on feminism so I wrote one.”
“The first law of reason is what exists, exists;what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock principleall knowledge is build. He said that was the foundation from which life is embraced. He said thinking is a choice, and that wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they means to discover them. Richard said reason is our only way of grasping reality - that it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking - to reject reason - but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see.”
“Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? / Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? / How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind? / Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass? / Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.”
“Scientific knowledge brought into being ever more wonders. The legends of my ancestors were shamed into silence. No longer did one have to meditate for years to be able to speak with someone across the sea. Some Germans had stretched a sea-cable from England to India! And wires of this sort were proliferating from here to there all across the face of the earth. Now the whole world could observe the actions of a single person. And one could watch the activity of the whole world.”
There are people who read books, and then there are people who define their lives by the books they have read and by the books they will read. Their relationship with books is not one of gleaning information and then discarding. It is a friendship that is more akin to, if it were possible, putting an arm around the book and whispering to it, giggling and chuckling with shared knowledge, shared experiences. When you see someone grasp a book to their breast and close their eyes or hold the book to their nose and inhale the scent of the book, they are gently mad, but also they are not just a reader of books, but a lover of books.
His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor aristocratic honour to help him. He was a man of straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling.
Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day - whether it be spending time with your friends, running in a cross-country meet or just simply staring at the crashing ocean- that holds the key to discovering the meaning of life. I would rather be out enjoying these things than pondering them. We may never really discover the meaning of life, but the knowledge we gain in our quest to discover it is truly more valuable.
The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.