Introductory message at her homepage at the University of California, San Diego http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/pschurchland/presentation.html, 2013
“How lazily "xperts" [sic] dismiss what they fail to understand.”
"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 305 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
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“The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.”
Impressions and Opinions (1891): "Balzac" http://books.google.com/books?id=QCQ7AAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+lot+of+critics+is+to+be+remembered+by+what+they+failed+to+understand%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage.
“Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.”
Les esprits médiocres condamnent d'ordinaire tout ce qui passe leur portée.
Maxim 375.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.”
Source: Rinkitink in Oz
" Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community http://pt.scribd.com/doc/2305083/Princeton-Educated-Blacks-and-the-Black-Community", senior thesis, Princeton University (1985), p. 112
1980s
“You see how I try
To reach with words
What matters most
And how I fail.”