Saturday, January 8, 2022

Scientia Potentia Est

 
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    “It is an under acknowledged truism that, 
     just as you are what you eat, 
     how and what you think depends on what 
     information you are exposed to.”; 
            ── Tim Wu, The Master Switch, 2010, p.13. 
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 → Because I don't know what lies behind something, I cann't keep up, and at something of a disadvantage.  And that's no way to live.  To be uninformed and entirely at someone else's mercy. (Netflix streaming show, The Crown, first season, episode 7, “Scientia Potentia Est”)  
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Ranjana Srivastava, A cancer companion : an oncologist's advice on diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, 2014
p.265
   For some people, knowledge is indeed power but for others it creates anxiety and a sense of helplessness. 
   (A cancer companion : an oncologist's advice on diagnosis, treatment, and recovery / Ranjana Srivastava., 1. cancer──patients., 2. cancer──diagnosis., 3. cancer──treatment., RC263.S67  2015, 616.99'4──dc23, 2014, )
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            To quote Marcel Proust:
               Each reader reads only what is already inside herself.  
               A [TEXT] is only a sort of optical instrument which the 
               writer offers to let the reader discover for herself 
               what she would not have found without the aid of the 
               [TEXT]. 
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