Monday, March 23, 2009

New ideas are not to be feared


“I was always being asked by the Navy brass what a destroyer skipper needs to know about Immanuel Kant; a liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.”

Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale ’47,
quoted in Newsweek,1 September 1980

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