6 Quotes by Shawn Lawrence Otto

...Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive...Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason.

A democracy is not truly democratic unless it's secular.

Exxon abandoned its good-citizen approach of funding research, allowing its publication, and discussing ways to transition to a new energy economy. It began to fund climate denial aimed at obfuscating the science and slowing its regulatory response.

Even more troubling than the dismal failure of the abstinence-only approach, Webber says, was that repeat teen pregnancy also went up. It turns out that Texas kids thought, “If birth control doesn’t work, why use it?

A man may imagine things that are false,” Newton said, “but he can only understand things that are true.” Newton.

The point of education isn’t to train students with specific job skills they have already identified; it is to show them what they don’t already know, and that they don’t know they don’t know. In other words, to help them build a telescope so they can discover their own talents and interests as scholars and human beings.