“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” — Donald Rumsfeld

Me quoting Rumsfeld is probably the sign of the end of times. Just thought I better let you know that. It’s not going to happen again.

“Is knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know this?” — Woody Allen

“I thought most Americans were smarter than that.
You’re thinking of Americans in the alternate-Cartman-with-beard-universe.” — Slashdot Comment

“And if science threatens your faith, perhaps you ought to re-examine your beliefs. Science and religion don’t have to be mutually exclusive things. It’s really just a handful of overly-dogmatic religious sects (read: fundies) that need science to be wrong on evolution (and a number of other things, for that matter), in order for their religious beliefs to be right.” — Another Slashdot Comment

In surveys conducted in 2005, people in the United States and 32 European countries were asked whether to respond “true,” “false” or “not sure” to this statement: “Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals.” The same question was posed to Japanese adults in 2001.

The United States had the second-highest percentage of adults who said the statement was false and the second-lowest percentage who said the statement was true. — NYT

I hope you smart Americans feel pity for your lesser kin; what year did America cease to be a guiding light in the world? I guess that’s a whole other topic for another post.

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