Prof Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University is an American institution himself. He is arguably one of the finest contemporary intellectuals. An economist by training, his output of books and articles is prodigious. A brilliant mind and an indefatigable warrior against the forces of unreason, ignorance, bigotry, tyranny, the controlling state, and so on and on.
Here are a few quotes from Dr Sowell. Continue reading “Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Race”
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. — Robert Heinlein in Expanded Universe (1980)
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. — Upton Sinclair
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is a Random Draw 