Standing, Standing, Standing - Why

There's Something Beautifully Soothing About A Fact — Even (or Perhaps Especially) If We're Not Sure What It Means.

The Fog Of Information Can Drive Out Knowledge.

The Most Important Lesson Of American History Is The Promise Of The Unexpected. None Of Our Ancestors Would Have Imagined Settling Way Over Here On This Unknown Continent. So We Must Continue To Have Society That Is Hospitable To The Unexpected, Which Allows Possibilities To Develop Beyond Our Own Imaginings.

Jeffersonian Isolationism Expressed An Essentially Cosmopolitan Spirit. The Jeffersonian Was Determined - Even At The Expense Of Separating Himself From The Rest Of The Globe, And Even Though He Be Charged With Provincial Selfishness - To Preserve America As An Uncontaminated Laboratory.

The History Of Western Science Confirms The Aphorism That The Great Menace To Progress Is Not Ignorance But The Illusion Of Knowledge.