Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

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"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."

- Robert M. Pirsig

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"For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn’t get his ideas from other people all around him."

- Robert M. Pirsig

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"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."

- Robert M. Pirsig

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""The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.""

- Robert M. Pirsig

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- Imam al-Shafi’i (RA)

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- Wade Boggs

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"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

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"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis

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"Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power."

- Larry Winget

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