In BOE Report I say if climate science really is settled, it want predictions ahead of time not rationalizations after the fact.
In my latest National Post column I say we should have seen chaos coming in Libya when we moved to oust Gadhafi.
“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”
Goethe, quoted on the flyleaf of Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy.
“One sword keeps another in the sheath.”
George Herbert on Brainy Quote (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/george_herbert_152910)
“‘Optimism is cowardice.’”
Oswald Spengler, quoted by Modris Eksteins in Globe & Mail June 3, 2000
Machiavelli’s advice about walking in the footsteps of the great “makes two points: first, that we’re bound to learn from the past whether or not we make the effort, since it’s the only data base we have and second, that we might as well try to do so systematically. E.H. Carr... observed, in What Is History?, that the size and reasoning capacity of the human brain are probably no greater now than they were five thousand years ago, but that very few human beings live now as they did then.... ‘History is progress through the transmission of acquired skills from one generation to another.’”
John Lewis Gaddis The Landscape of History