Children's view of the world and their capacity to understand keep expanding as they mature, and they need to ask the same questio...ns over and over, fitting the information into their new level of understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centr...e of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After that came commencement day--that great day for which all other days were made. And it went. And that night I felt of myself ...all over, and to my astonishment, I found 'twas the same old Rud. Not a single cubit added to my stature; not a hair's breadth to my girth. If anything, on the contrary, I felt more lank and gaunt than common, much as if a load were off my stomach.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major...--perhaps the major--stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Comfort, comfort ye my people, speak ye peace, thus saith our God; comfort those who sit in darkness mourning 'neath their so...rrows' load. Speak ye to Jerusalem of the peace that waits for them; tell her that her sins I cover, and her warfare now is over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You...'re trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, an...d ask myself why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and hide its head from me who might, perhaps, be its benefactor, and impart to its race some cheering information, I am reminded of the greater Benefactor and Intelligence that stands over me the human insect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Computers are good at swift, accurate computation and at storing great masses of information. The brain, on the other hand, is not... as efficient a number cruncher and its memory is often highly fallible; a basic inexactness is built into its design. The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »