The reason that millions of people read books about Islam (even if they don’t believe in it) instead of studying Cosmology is that cosmologist don’t go around blowing up train stations, turning school girls into sex slaves, executing cartoonists, and crashing airplanes into skyscrapers. The reason why we are having a worldwide discussion about one of the most ridiculous superstitions in the history of humankind (to depict or not to depict a man who lived in the 7th century) is that people get killed because of that superstition.
cosmologist don’t go around blowing up train stations
First thing I thought at this point was “Oh! Maybe we should,” then I remembered that I’m not aware of anybody who’s studied mathematics thanks to Ted Kaczynski.
On the dispersing of memes (note: politicised).
-Piero Scaruffi
First thing I thought at this point was “Oh! Maybe we should,” then I remembered that I’m not aware of anybody who’s studied mathematics thanks to Ted Kaczynski.
Also, you know, blowing up train stations.