“The school budget crisis is reaching a critical stage.”
WGN (Channel 40 in Vancouver) News August 20, 1993
“Don’t be afraid to speak up. Remember, whatever you say about the subject and however fallacious it might be, the same thing has already been said by some eminent economist.”
Ludwig von Mises, quoted from memory by Murray Rothbard in The Essential von Mises
“'You believe in God only because you were taught to believe in God in childhood.' Is that something like saying that I believe in arithmetic only because I was taught to believe in arithmetic in childhood?”
J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" email Feb. 25, 2019
“statistics, a term which for most people is synonymous with ‘migraine.’”
William Watson in National Post Nov. 27, 2001
“I wonder why pundits describe certain politicians as ideology-free, since that’s not possible. Everyone has some view of the world.”
J. Budziszewski "Underground Thomist" Feb. 25, 2019
“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and who manages to avoid them.”
Werner Heisenberg (of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle) quoted in Globe & Mail Feb. 1, 2002
“Soon we shall know everything the 18th century didn’t know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.”
Randall Jarrell, quoted on flyleaf of Neil Postman Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
“The things I like arguing about are absolute things; whether a proof is logical or whether a practice is just.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Dec. 17, 1927, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2008)