Quote of the Day: Science contribution

Zoulapia

• 03.01 Quote of the day: Rise to the Top

  Quoth Julian Edney

  But the chances of a person born poor climbing all five classes into the top (”making it”)[...]are too small to constitute a real freedom.[...], one sociologist puts the upper class at roughly 3 percent of the population. About 7.7% of that has moved in from below – a minute, and historically persistent, figure.[...]But the trick of flaunting possibility to mask actual probability is not a casual device.

  (h/t to the Barefoot Bum)

  
• 24.12 Quote of the Day: Fables

  Quoth David Willey of BBC news

  The priest said he had never intended to hurt anyone, but it was his duty to distinguish the reality of Jesus from the story of Father Christmas which was a fable just like Cinderella or Snow White.

  The Irony! It burnssss

• 21.12 Quote of the day: Knowledge before Expertise

  Quoth Isaac Puente

  We are asked from the outset to come up with a flawless system, to guarantee that things will work this way and not that, without mishap or error. If learning to live had to be done this way, then our apprenticeship would never end. Nor would the child ever learn to walk, nor the youngster to ride a bicycle.

  This is a classic gripe I have with people inquiring or criticizing communism with me. They ask me to provide a perfect answer for every question they have, and when they can think of holes in my replies, they ask more. If I refuse to keep playing this game, they point this out as proof of an obviously poor-thought system.