Well, wow. This is an honor: reddit.com put up a quote of mine on their science section:
Right there in the middle is a quotation from me: "Teach a man to reason, and he’ll think for a lifetime." That was from my speech The Goals of Skepticism (commonly referred to as my Don’t Be A Dick speech), which I gave at TAM a couple of years ago.
There it is, highlighted. I’m really happy to see that. I liked the phrase when I came up with it, and it’s popped up here and there (like on a mug, and in a Symphony of Science).
The only thing that bugs me about the phrase is the use of the masculine gender. I struggled to make the phrase more neutral, but since it’s based on an existing aphorism — "Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime" — I couldn’t phrase it that way without removing it too much from the original, ...
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