Intelligens og/eller klokskap handler om å forstå sammenhenger mellom ulikheter.
Alle prosesser drives av ulikheter
Kunnskapsvekst og innsikt skjer på grunnlag av ulike betraktningsmåter (mentale modeller)
Homogenisering av meninger (mentale modeller) medfører økende dumskap og ender i intellektuell ruin…‽
"All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met."
― Theodore Zeldin
"All progress comes from the creative minority."
― George Gilder
“But the disposition to disagree, to reject and to dissent - however irritating it may be when taken to extremes - is the very lifeblood of an open society. We need people who make a virtue of opposing mainstream opinion. A democracy of permanent consensus will not long remain a democracy.”
― Tony Judt (1948-2010)
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa (1940-1993)
"The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel Boorstin (1914-2004)
"Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence."
—Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
"The growth of knowledge depends entirely on disagreement"
—Karl Popper (1902-1994)
“The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.”
― Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. "
― George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
― Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it."
— Maimonides (1135-1204)
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