Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is … - Ursula Goodenough

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

Ursula Goodenough

Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.

Coat, Fall, Hook, Like, Memories, Rows

Same Author Quotes

Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose.

Down, History, Home, Night, Prayer, Think

Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.

Assent, Awe, Larger, Respect, Reverence, Self

The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.

Emergence, Joy, Miracle, Religious, Tales, Yearning

The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism. The intermediate level, the chords and tempos, has to do with how the biochemistry and biophysics are organized, arranged, played out in space and time to produce a creature who grows and divides and is.

Creature, Levels, Played, Real, Required, Space

I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence. And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.

Emergence, Grace, Miracle, Self, Witness