Marc Gilbert-Widmann

Category: Education

  • Quote of the Day 29 December 2013 – Risk

    “In theory, the risk of business failure can be reduced to a number, the probability of failure multiplied by the cost of failure. Sure, this turns out to be a subjective analysis, but in the process your own attitudes toward financial risk and reward are revealed. By contrast, personal risk usually defies quantification. It’s a…

  • Quote of the Day 18 December 2013 – Evidence

    “One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take…

  • Science Quote of the Day 15 Dec 2013 – Religions

    “Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How many scholars have simply assumed that males have always played the dominant role in leadership and creative invention and projected this assumption into their analysis of ancient cultures? Why do so many people…

  • Triple Quote Saturday – 14 December 2013- Imagine

    “Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and…

  • Quote of the Day 5 December 2013 – Flower

    “I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this…

  • Quote of the Day 21 November 2013 – Searching

    “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” ? Martin Luther King, Jr Related articles Artist Creates Photo Of Martin Luther King Jr. In A Hoodie Things that matter most.…

  • The art of the screw | Cross Campus at Yale

    Screw season has once again settled over the campus. Love and awkwardness are in the air. Each year for a swathe of time in the fall, hundreds of Yalies funnel their creative energy into browsing ID photos on Yale Facebook and executing elaborate set-up schemes to help their suite-mates find a one, true screw date.…

  • Quote of the Day 09 October 2013 ~ Republics are Created

    Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. [Joseph A. Story] From the book: Familiar Exposition of the Constitution…

  • IN WHAT YEAR was “under god” added to ‘The Pledge Of Allegiance’?

    I pledge allegiance to the FLAG(S) of the DIVIDED States of America and to the Republic for which it USED TO stand for, one nation, HELD HOSTAGE, with LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME. This might as well be the pledge of allegiance since it is just as accurate as what false patriots think it is…

  • The Most Aggressive Defense Of Teachers You’ll Hear This Year

    Betcha didn’t think that he was gonna say that! Submitted by volunteer editor Brandon W. Originally found on JackLeftTown’s YouTube Channel. The Most Aggressive Defense Of Teachers You.