"We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
" -- Thomas Edison, inventor of the electric light bulb and the phonograph, holder of over 1,00 patents--and he attended school for only three months.
"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds it's spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain any more so it eats it. It's rather like getting tenure.
" -- Daniel C. Dennett (from Consciousness Explained, 1991)
