Michael > Michael's Quotes

“The one thing that I want every single child to have experienced at some point in their life, as part of their education, is to have some idea they hold to be true, and at the very basis of their being, proved to be wrong.

Because that opens your mind to the realization that the world is different than you thought it would be, and you have to begin to open your mind to the possibilities of existence.

And opening your mind frees you, it doesn't constrain you. It makes the world more wonderful, more exciting, and more worth living in.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss

“The role of democracy is not to banish disagreement but rather to prevent political disagreements from devolving into armed conflict.”
― Michael C. Munger, The Thing Itself: Essays on Academics and the State