Speaking of . . .

Here are some quotes I used in a talk I gave earlier today at the Mount Vernon Unitarian Church.

Writing on the abuse, misuse and non-recognition of women, Joss Whedon recently said that “if we can evolve, invent and theorize our way into the technologically magical, culturally diverse and artistically magnificent race we are and still get people to buy the idiotic idea that half of us are inferior, we’re pretty amazing. Let our next sleight of hand be to make that myth disappear.”

From Joan Chittister, “Most learning is not acquiring new insights; it’s letting go of the old ones.”

Then, from Voltaire, “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

And, lastly from Francis Herbert, author of the Dune series of novels, “Knowledge is often a barrier to learning.”