“The sane person prides himself on his ability to be unaffected by important facts, and interested in unimportant ones. He refers to this as having a sense of perspective, or keeping things ‘in proportion’.”

“The sane person prides himself on his ability to be unaffected by important facts, and interested in unimportant ones. He refers to this as having a sense of perspective, or keeping things ‘in proportion’.”

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing