Before you read statements on the topic, you should consider that the learning process can be both positive and negative. After all, we assimilate not only the good, but also the bad, we learn not only knowledge, but also misconceptions. Therefore, not all learning and not all knowledge is useful for a person. And about some things we are better off not knowing anything at all.
The scourge of man is imaginary knowledge. (Montaigne)
Prosperity is a great teacher, but misfortune is the greatest teacher. Wealth pampers the mind, deprivation strengthens it. (William Hazlitt)
There are knowledge and sensations that can only be expressed in words that have not yet been invented. (Gottfried Benn)
(New knowledge - new terms)
The great art of learning a lot is to take on a little at once. (John Locke)
Faith and knowledge are two scales: the higher one is, the lower the other. (Schopenhauer)
Things that need to be learned in order to do them are better learned by doing them. (Aristotle)
In ancient times, people studied in order to improve themselves. Nowadays people study in order to surprise others. (Confucius)
In much knowledge there is much sorrow, and whoever increases his knowledge increases his sorrow. (Ecclesiastes)
Everything I have learned in life, I have learned on my own. (D.B. Shaw)
The word “scholar” only implies that he has been taught a lot, but this does not mean that he has actually learned anything. (G. Lichtenberg)
In essence, old age begins from the moment a person loses the ability to learn. (A. Graf)
Anyone who studies the history of national disasters can be convinced that most of the misfortunes on earth are brought about by ignorance. (Helvetius)
Where true knowledge is absent, ignorance calls itself science. (D.B. Shaw)
Deep ideas are like those clear waters whose transparency is obscured by their own depth. (Helvetius)
It is much more important to know what is being done than to do what you know. (Boethius)
Even the famous is known to few. (Aristotle, Poetics)
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. (Anatole France)
A diploma from an educational institution is a document certifying that you had a chance to learn something. (Yanina Ipohorskaya)
For those who do not know, everything is possible. (Christoph Wieland)
A house without a book is like a body without a soul. (Cicero)
Teach a fool to heal the dead. (Russian last)
The only cure against superstition is knowledge.
(Ambrose Bierce)
The only smart way to teach people is to lead by example. (A. Einstein)
The only way to protect yourself from the outside world is to know it deeply. (Locke)
If the children's prayers had been fulfilled, not a single teacher would have survived. (Persian last)
If my theory does not agree with the facts, so much the worse for the facts. (Hegel)
(Almost always, this statement is interpreted as an illustration of excessive conceit. However, the meaning of the statement is different. The emphasis is on the power of the theory. A perfect theory verifies the authenticity of the facts, and not vice versa. And if the facts do not agree with this theory, then they are wrong)
If we really know something, we know it through the study of mathematics. (P. Gassendi)
If thinking is destroyed, then order is destroyed. (Confucius)
If you don’t understand something about something, it doesn’t mean that you have already figured out everything else. (Author not identified)
If the teacher eats while standing, the student eats while walking. (Malay-Indonesian sequence)
If I tell you how I do it, people will stop paying me money and start paying it to you. (Khoja Nasreddin)
There are books from which you can learn about everything and understand nothing. (Goethe)
There are times when ignorance is a blessing. (Charles Dickens)
There are only two things you shouldn't skimp on - your health and your children's education. (Tetcorax)
There are three kinds of ignorance: to know nothing at all; it is bad to know what everyone knows; to know is not what one should know. (Charles Duclos)
Montaigne also discovered that learning by heart has nothing to do with knowledge. (Harald Heinrich)
The living cannot teach the dead anything; but the dead teach the living. (Chateaubriand)
The only punishment that should be given to those who go astray is to force them to study. (Plato)
Knowledge is power, power is knowledge. (F. Bacon)
(In the original: Knowledge itself is power. (“Knowledge itself is power”)
Knowledge of some principles easily compensates for ignorance of some facts. (C. Helvetius)
Knowledge is such a precious thing that there is no shame in acquiring it from any source. (Thomas Aquinas)
Knowledge is the information that a tomato is a fruit. Not putting a tomato in a fruit salad is wisdom. (Myles Kington)
Knowledge is that which most essentially elevates one person above another. (Joseph Addison)
To know people is to know their passions. (B. Disraeli)
Ideas are like rabbits: you get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have dozens of them. (John Steinbeck)
Avoiding superstitions is superstition. (F. Bacon)
Of all the scientific theories, my favorite is the one according to which Saturn's rings are made entirely of lost airline luggage. (Mark Russell)
They learn everything from books, except how to use them themselves. (F. Bacon)
To study means to understand the correctness of what others think. (Hegel)
Intuition is knowledge that is not consciously realized by a person. (Tetcorax)
Every educated person should know that a cut glass has fourteen sides, and a shrimp has ten legs. (Tetcorax)
The quality of knowledge is inversely proportional to the ability to use search engines.
(Yes, the Internet has replaced learning for us)
When knowledge is forgotten, it’s not so bad, but when it is transferred to an unworthy person, it’s already a crime. (Prophet Mohammed)
Whoever the gods want to punish, they make him a teacher. (Seneca)
He who knows nothing has nothing to make mistakes. (Menander)
He who knows nothing will believe everything. (Maria Ebner Eschenbach)
He who comprehends the new while cherishing the old can be a teacher. (Confucius)
Those who can do it do it; those who don’t know how to teach others. (D.B. Shaw)
Those who can do it do it; those who do not know how to teach others; and whoever does not know how to do this is taught by teachers. (Laurence Peter)
Who is smarter: the fool or the one he learned from? (Tetcorax)
He who increases knowledge increases sorrow. (Solomon)
He who studies without thinking will fall into error. Whoever thinks without wanting to learn will find himself in difficulty. (Confucius)
False knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance. (D.B. Shaw)
The best books say what is known without them. (George Orwell)
Any human knowledge begins with intuition, moves to concepts and ends with ideas. (I. Kant)
Most people are keenly interested in everything in the world, except for what is really worth knowing. (O. Wilde)
Many things are incomprehensible to us, not because our concepts are weak, but because these things are not included in the range of our concepts.
(Kozma Prutkov)
Much knowledge - many sorrows. (Solomon, Ecclesiastes 1:18)
I learned a lot from my mentors, even more from my comrades, but most of all from my students. ("Talmud")
We all learned a little bit
Something and somehow. (A.S. Pushkin)
We know as much as we remember. (Latin last)
We know a person not by what he knows, but by what he rejoices in. (Rabindranath Tagore)
We can do as much as we know. Knowledge is power. (F. Bacon)
At the bottom of the well of knowledge lies truth. After drinking all the water from there, you will easily find what you are looking for. (Absalom the Underwater)
For every one person who wants to teach, there are about thirty who don’t want to think. (W. Sellar)
People can be forced to obey, but they cannot be forced to know. (Confucius)
The time will come when our descendants will be surprised that we did not know such obvious things. (Seneca the Elder)
Science refines the mind; learning will sharpen your memory. (Kozma Prutkov)
You can only learn what you love. (Goethe)
Learning wisdom is as impossible as learning to be beautiful. (Henry Shaw)
Our shortcomings are our best teachers. But you are always ungrateful to the best teachers. (Nietzsche)
Ignorance makes people bold, but reflection makes people indecisive. (Thucydides)
It is not enough to be a talented student; the teacher must also be talented. (Author not identified)
If you don't know, shut up! You know - keep quiet! (Author not identified)
Ignorance is not an argument, ignorance is not an argument. (B. Spinoza)
It is not easy to meet a person who, after spending three years studying, would not dream of occupying a high position. (Confucius)
Do not worry about acquiring great knowledge: of all knowledge, moral science is perhaps the most necessary, but it is not taught. (Pythagoras)
An unknown life is not worth living. (Socrates)
It is not words, but misfortune that is the teacher of fools. (Democritus)
The inability to learn in old age is explained (and undoubtedly) by a reluctance to no longer obey. (Georg Lichtenberg)
Don’t strive to know everything, lest you become ignorant of everything. (Democritus)
There is no greater hatred in the world than the hatred of the ignorant for knowledge. (Galileo)
An ignoramus is only boring, a pedant is unbearable. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
It must be remembered that an inexperienced hillbilly always promises too much and is sure that he knows what he actually does not know. (Flavius Vegetius)
Education is not a hindrance to femininity: doctors are just as stupid as other women. (Hugo Steinhaus)
Education is a way of acquiring higher order prejudices. (Lawrence Peter)
Education is what you have left when you forget everything you learned. (B.F. Skinner)
Teaching means doubly learning. (Joseph Joubert)
A society in which old people are lazy to teach young people, and young people believe that there is nothing to learn from old people, is doomed. (Tetcorax)
One of the greatest disasters of civilization is the learned fool. (Karel Capek)
The merits of a teacher cannot be judged by the size of the crowd that follows him. (Richard Bach)
Experience is the best teacher. (Latin last)
The main task of education is to make your mind an interlocutor with whom it would be pleasant to talk.
(Sydney Harris)
What your school teaches today will determine what your government will do a generation later. (Abraham Lincoln)
Find the beginning of everything, and you will understand a lot. (Kozma Prutkov)
I have seen many people in my time who were driven to complete stupidity by an immoderate thirst for knowledge. (M. Montaigne)
A bad student is one who is not superior to the teacher.
(Leonardo da Vinci)
Knowledge begins with wonder. (Aristotle)
Knowledge destroys activity: in order to act, one must be blinded by illusion. (Nietzsche)
While you live, learn. Don't expect old age to bring wisdom with it. (Solon)
Constantly guide your loved ones on the right path, otherwise over time, their problems will become your problems. (Tetcorax)
Teaching an old man how to treat a dead man. (Diogenes)
Before you know everything, know what is necessary. (Tetcorax)
When learning science, examples are more useful than rules. (Isaac Newton)
Ordinary people are amazed by incredible phenomena; educated people, on the contrary, are frightened and puzzled by everything simple and ordinary. (Edmund Burke)
The bird teaches the fish to fly, the fish teaches the bird to swim. What can they learn from each other? They learn that everyone should mind their own business. (Tetcorax)
Let the child's first lesson be obedience. Then the second one can be what you consider necessary. (B. Franklin)
It is rare to express a sound thought to someone who always strives to be original. (Vauvenargues)
Rarely does one become great who has not found the courage to neglect the knowledge of many unnecessary things. (K. Dossey)
The most harmful thing is not ignorance at all, but knowledge of a damn lot of things that are not actually true.
(Frank Knight, American economist)
Perfection is a person’s knowledge of his imperfection. (Aurelius Augustine)
Socrates... forced his students to speak first, and then he spoke himself. (Montaigne)
Compare your desires with the desires of others and draw conclusions for yourself - this is a simple way to learn wisdom in this world.
(Hong Zichen)
I’m getting old, but I always learn a lot everywhere. (Solon)
The severity of a teacher is better than the affection of a father. (Persian last)
There are four greatest obstacles to the comprehension of truth, namely: the example of a pitiful and unworthy authority, the constancy of habit, the opinion of the ignorant crowd, and the covering of one's own ignorance with ostentatious wisdom. (Roger Bacon)
There are six ways that make it possible to know a person. This is his facial expression, his words, his deeds, his character, his goals and, finally, the opinions of other people. (F. Bacon)
A full belly is deaf to learning. (Russian last)
Those who want to learn are often harmed by the authority of those who teach. (Cicero)
The one who knows what he wants, either wants too little, or knows too much. (Wanted author)
He who knows nothing doubts nothing. (Randle Cotgrave)
The one who, turning to the old, is able to discover the new, is worthy of being a Teacher. (Confucius)
He who correctly points out my mistakes is my teacher; he who rightly marks my right actions is my friend; he who flatters me is my enemy. (Sun Tzu)
The one who knows how, does it, the one who doesn’t know how, teaches. (D.B. Shaw)
He who has imagination but no knowledge has wings but no legs. (Joseph Joubert)
What we know is limited, but what we do not know is infinite. (Apuley)
The tragedy of the world is that dreamers have little experience, and practitioners have little imagination. Fools act on fantasies without knowledge; pedants - based on knowledge without fantasy. The task of the university is to connect imagination with practice. (Alfred Whitehead)
Three paths lead to knowledge: the path of reflection is the noblest, the path of imitation is the easiest, and the path of experience is the most bitter. (Confucius)
It is difficult to lead to good with moral teachings, easy by example. (Seneca)
You can't do anything about the stupidity that surrounds you! But don’t worry in vain, because a stone thrown into a swamp does not create circles. (Schopenhauer)
You will never know enough unless you strive to know more than enough. (William Blake)
Smart people teach fools, fools teach idiots, idiots teach smart people. This is exactly how the cycle of knowledge occurs in nature. (Tetcorax)
Smart people learn from the mistakes of others, stupid people learn from their own, and we learn from neither ours nor others. (Tetcorax)
A lesson is only a real lesson when it pushes us to start moving in the right direction.
Teaching, learning. (Seneca)
Learning without reflection is useless; reflection without learning is dangerous. (Confucius)
To succeed, students need to catch up with those who are ahead and not wait for those who are behind. (Aristotle)
The disciple is not a vessel that needs to be filled, but a torch that needs to be lit. (Plutarch)
Learning is light, but ignorance is just light for work. 😦
Learning is light, but the unlearned are darkness. (Wanted author)
Learning is the only thing that is divine and immortal in us; the greatest advantages with which human nature is endowed are reason and speech. (Plutarch)
Teach your children - strangers are already scientists. (Vietnamese last)
Learn to use what you have, then you won’t need what you don’t have. (F. Chesterfield)
Study as if you were to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. (O. Bismarck)
A fool needs a teacher, a student needs a Master. (Bee Dorsey Orley)
Teachers to whom children owe their upbringing are more honorable than parents to whom children owe only their birth: some give us only life, while others give us a good life. (Aristotle)
Learning means discovering what you already know. To do is to demonstrate that you know what you are doing. (Richard Bach)
You can also learn from the enemy. (Ovid)
It is much more difficult to learn from other people's mistakes than from your own. (Author not identified)
It's never too late to learn
Correct the actions of your youth;
That heart is truly noble,
That seeks victories over itself. (G. Derzhavin)
Cunning people despise teaching, simple people bow to it, wise people use it. (Thomas Macaulay)
Keep your knowledge, like a watch, in your inner pocket; do not display them, as a watch does, without any reason, just to show that you have them. (F. Chesterfield)
The only thing worse than a guy who thinks he's a know-it-all is someone who actually knows everything. (Al Bernstein)
The goal of the school should always be to educate a harmonious personality, and not a specialist. (Einstein)
What they themselves do not know, they teach others. (Cicero)
A person who reads nothing is more educated than one who reads nothing but newspapers. (Thomas Jefferson)
A man who is too old to learn has probably always been too old to learn.
(Henry Haskins)
Man is neither the oldest nor the most persistent of the problems that have arisen before human knowledge.
(Michel Foucault)
A person who goes on a trip to a country whose language he does not know is actually going to school, not on a trip.
(F. Bacon)
The more you understand, the larger the circle of people who have nothing to talk about with you (Alex Vedov)
The easier it is for a teacher to teach, the more difficult it is for students to learn.
(Lev Tolstoy)
The more correct a judgment seems to us, the more carefully we should check it. (Tetcorax)
What can a fish teach a bird? (Bee Dorsey Orley)
The worse the teacher teaches, the more he asks; The weaker he is as a teacher, the more drastic measures he takes. (Wanted author)
Reading makes a person knowledgeable, conversation makes a person resourceful, and the habit of writing makes a person accurate. (F. Bacon)
To know others there are two means:
One is ridicule, and the other is flattery. (Goethe)
I assert that... self-knowledge did not lead to anything worthwhile. (I. Goethe)
(The statement is clearly taken out of context. It’s a bummer for the compiler to look for this context)
- What are you reading, teacher?
- I’m no longer interested in reading, I’m writing.
What the teachers digest, the students eat. (Karl Kraus)
What is education? Study, forget and accidentally remember. (Wanted author)
School is a place where cobblestones are polished and diamonds are damaged. (Robert Ingersoll)
The school curriculum is a matter of state survival. (Tetcorax)
I'm always happy to learn, but I don't always enjoy being taught.
(W. Churchill) (More precisely, they teach)
I know that I know nothing. But others don't even know this. (Socrates)
I don't teach wisdom, I eliminate prejudice. (Pythagoras)
I have never allowed schooling to interfere with my education. (Mark Twain)
I pay the teacher, but my son is taught by his fellow students.
(Ralph Emerson)
I convinced myself that I should trust those who teach more than those who command. (Augustine)
Knowledge multiplies sorrow
Ecclesiastes
Dear readers, after reading this article, you will most likely have to conduct a complete revision of your knowledge acquired at school and higher educational institutions, at least in such disciplines as history, geography, geology.
So, let's go. I show you the logical chain of my reasoning and conclusions.
Today we have a huge number of artifacts that cannot be duplicated today due to the lack of technology, equipment and specialists, and which indicate that 200 years ago there was a global civilization on Earth, compared to which we are children in the sandbox. A few examples:
Babolovskaya bath. Granite. Weight 48 tons.
This is what a turner who visited her writes:
Alexandria Column weighing 600 tons, 27 meters high. Granite. The shape is not a cone, but an entasis. It is impossible to make such a product without rotation in a lathe. Try to order a small copy of such a product with an IDEAL radius from any turner made of hard foam or wood with a height of at least 2 meters and a diameter of 30 cm, but requiring the use of only hand tools (planes, chisels, sandpaper) and he will refuse.
Peru, Ollantaytambo. Polygonal joining of blocks weighing 40-120 tons. You can see the level of fit for yourself.
Cappella Sansevero: Il Disinganno. Made from one piece of marble. It is impossible to make something like this without an advanced CNC machine. Over the past 50 years, nothing even remotely similar in complexity of execution has been done by any sculptor. Even with CNC machines.
Marble tombstone at the Monumental Cemetery-Museum of Staglieno in Genoa.
Stone bridge in Sevastopol. Each polygonal stone of the bridge is essentially a separate sculpture. An example of modern stone work behind the bridge on the left. A wall made of wild stone. By today's standards it is considered quite acceptable.
Further, all the cities on the planet were built of stone in the ancient style with pre-designed layouts of streets, avenues, embankments, etc. All cities had a stone bastion wall, the construction volume of which was often equal to the construction volume of the city itself. More details about this in my article:
Geography of the global world before nuclear war using the example of ancient architecture and bastion stars
http://wakeuphuman.livejournal.com/921.html
In the region of 1780-1815, a thermonuclear war occurred, most likely not for the first time on the planet, which resulted in the nuclear winter of 1816 - a year without a summer. The Anglo-Saxons call it Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Read more about some facts about the use of thermonuclear weapons 200 years ago using the links below, if you have not read it before.
http://wakeuphuman.livejournal.com/1116.html
http://wakeuphuman.livejournal.com/552.html
I will also provide several screenshots from Google Earth of photos of nuclear craters in territory, for example, Belarus. It is easy to find hundreds of such funnels in almost all countries. The white marks around the craters are broken limestone, the main building material of that time.
In the Belarusian sinkholes given as an example, there is water, since the groundwater level is apparently high. But there are a lot of craters without water on the surface of the planet. For example, in Ukraine:
As a result of the nuclear winter, almost all plants froze and polar ice caps formed. This confirms the almost complete absence of trees older than 200 years in the northern hemisphere. Some of them burned out in the war, some froze. To visually evaluate this, type Roger Fenton Crimea or James Robertson Crimea into Google and click show pictures. You will see photographs of these two first military photographers sent to Crimea in 1853 (after the nuclear war, approximately 40 years later) to photograph the siege of Sevastopol. Compare vegetation then and now.
An example of one photo of Fenton near Sevastopol:
Also type in Google “Siberia photo of the 19th century.” You will see many photographs from the end of the 19th century, in which trees have just begun to grow. For example, Sverdlovsk region:
After this war, we rolled back in development to the level of a feudal society. The Anglo-Saxons took the profit, since they got the least, they crushed the rest of the world for 150 years, reinvented the steam engine on coal and off we go - now the era of oil and gas, nuclear energy and our industrial-industrial complex uses the entire periodic table, which it supposedly invented in a dream. In fact, she was simply thrown through it.
Let's move on to the most interesting part. I assert that the current civilization is only a shadow of a bygone one. We are children compared to them. This cannot be proven using the industrial equipment of a previous civilization; it was simply disposed of and melted down. For example, after the collapse of the USSR, drunks dug trenches and cables and water pipes from underground to hand them over to a metal collection point. But how to prove it? It's easy. If the bygone civilization was much more developed than ours, then the entire periodic table was also needed for the functioning of its industrial and metallurgical complex. And all isotopes of elements. And almost all the elements of the periodic table are found in rock and earth. This means that I need to show you large-scale traces of rock removal from mountain slopes, from the surface of the earth and from underground. As well as traces of processed waste rock after its enrichment at mining and processing plants of the past. This is what we will do. I will use the analogy method, as it is very clear.
Until the 18th century, residential buildings were built almost exclusively from limestone.
For cutting, advanced machines were used to produce perfect parallelograms. You cannot insert a blade into the seam of masonry made of such limestone blocks. Here is a photo of a house in Crimea, the first floor of which is covered with clay to a depth of three to four meters, as in all cities in the former USSR. In Sevastopol, Simferopol, Feodosia, Kerch, all houses that are sunk into the ground 3-4 meters have masonry of this quality.
200 years pass, and in Soviet times this kind of limestone masonry was considered very good:
Masonry of the same quality as in the first photo is no longer used anywhere. This is called regression.
Now we look at the volumes and for how long limestone, the main building material, was mined on this planet. Using Crimea as an example, since I’m from here, the local landscapes and catacombs pushed me on the right path.
This is Eski-Kerman. Illiterate guides will tell you that this is one of the cave cities of Crimea where people lived.
When I asked about this track, I was told that this track was made by the wheels of the carts of the local nobility.
Here is another “cave city” of Crimea - Chufut-Kale.
And this is a modern Crimean limestone quarry. With a sawn-out quarryman's room. Apparently, it’s convenient to store tools there. Mentally send this quarry into the future 10,000-20,000 years, apply the effect of wind and water erosion to it, and what will you get as a result? That's right, another "cave city" of Crimea. The track in the top photo, as you understand, was left by a trolley on which sawn stone was transported. Although, in the post-nuclear era, the quarry is a good place for survivalists. Apparently it was used as a protected town.
Go ahead. In Crimea there are thousands of kilometers of catacombs in which limestone was cut. The volumes are simply prohibitive. Moreover, it is officially stated that the stone has been mined since the time of the “ancient Greeks”, before our era. It was sawed with hand saws and mined with chisels and spades. I went on an excursion to the Adzhimushkai quarries. Unfortunately, I didn't take a photo. The traces of circular saws are clearly visible on the ceiling, and the thickness of the blade is 4 mm. The diameter of the disk is approximately 2 meters - this is clearly visible on the walls; when, after cutting, the block was broken off, the place where the disk stopped was clearly visible. If you're in the catacombs, pay attention.
In this photo, taken before the 1917 revolution, you see that a segment has been carefully cut out of a limestone slope, at the bottom of which there is a railway and houses built.
Now a very important photo of the Inkerman quarry (modern name Champagne) taken in 1890. On it we see a sawn passage through a hill 100 meters wide and 80 meters high. There are huge niches in the walls of the cut, with one-story houses standing in them. Under the vertical wall we see small substandard pieces of limestone and limestone chips piled up in the form of a slope, which fell from under the saws. Some of these niches are the beginning of catacombs that extend hundreds of kilometers deep. Large-scale underground mining of limestone was carried out. During the Second World War, these catacombs housed a headquarters, a hospital, a clothing workshop, and warehouses. Trucks drove inside freely. During the retreat, the entrances were blown up. By the way, there are ancient catacombs under any city on the planet. Google it. Near Odessa, the length of the catacombs is 2500 km.
Now let's reveal the manipulation. What they serve you under the guise of rocks, canyons and gorges is nothing more than quarries. Both very ancient quarries and relatively recent ones.
So, Crimea, Belogorsk. White rock. This is a limestone quarry. The wall was formed by cutting the side of a hill.
At the foot of the wall there is a characteristic mound of limestone chips and substandard conditions.
Further more. Do you see this passage from which a lot of limestone was removed in the Bakhchisarai region? They pass it off as a valley. The slopes of limestone chips under the walls are already covered with oak forests
The same. Bakhchisarai district
This photo shows a populated area. It is located at the bottom of an ancient quarry. But it is called the valley that the river washed through. That's bullshit. On the contrary, after this mining, water flowed along the bottom of the quarry from the broken aquifer, or a stream that had previously flowed along a different route turned here. This is the norm of the day in any quarry. The river cannot wash away the mountain range standing in its path. He will be a dam in her way. Many of you who are older have seen in childhood streams that flow from a small vertical wall made of limestone or other rock. Over the course of 20-30-40 years, has this stream increased the diameter of the hole from which it flows? That's just it.
Well, does the scale of stone mining in small Crimea impress you? Looking ahead, I’ll say that these are still minor things. There is not a single cube of rock on this planet, probably 100 meters deep across the entire area, that was not at one time mined, ground, chewed and thrown away. This is not a planet, this is a giant quarry in which the entire periodic table is mined in the most barbaric way.
Now look at the photo and pay attention to the tiered structure of the quarries and mines. Extraction of iron ore at the Lebedinskoye deposit by open blasting.
Magnetic Mountain, Ural
Cheremshansky nickel mines
Copper mines, Kennecott Utah USA
Vostok Ore Quarry.
Bingham Canyon Copper Mine in Utah, USA
Magnesium quarry in Navarre
Rotary excavator. Power consumption is around 4-5 megawatts. But there will be more details on them later. Just remember how he chooses the breed. It actually forms a canyon with large tiers.
A rotary excavator cuts the mountain range in tiers. Formed a structure with right angles when viewed from above.
Another bucket wheel excavator selected rock in a semicircle in front of it.
And now I will show you mountains, mountain ranges, gorges, canyons in practically uninhabited places with different romantic names. They are often named after a certain “discoverer”. Don’t academicians and professors from geology and geography see this?
"Mountain" on the Kola Peninsula. I don't know the name.
"Mountains". Antarctica. Rock selected in a semicircle by a bucket wheel excavator in Antarctica, which was only discovered in 1820!
Antarctica. There are even traces of the tracks of heavy equipment preserved here.
Greenland. Watkins Mountains. How do you like the scale of production? But these are still flowers.
Gunnbjorn. The highest mountain in Greenland. 3700 meters. No problem. Almost completely gutted.
Svalbard, Norway. Aurora Borealis with a quarry in the background
Antarctica. Transantarctic Mountains. Traces of machinery are still visible at the foot
Antarctica. Transantarctic Mountains. Quarry system. Pay attention to the background.
Mount Kailash. Tibet. Height 6638 meters! Have you seen heavy mining equipment being lifted to such a height in our time?
Mount Kailash. Tibet.
Goblin Valley, State Park Utah, USA
Gloss Mountains State Park, Oklahoma, USA. It is the height of cynicism to call spent quarries national parks.
Now take a deep breath and look with wide eyes. Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. It's just a giant quarry. Gutted area. Millions of tourists think that this is almost a wonder of the world, because they were told so.
Grand Canyon Quarry, Arizona, USA.
Quarry - Rocks of the Spitsbergen archipelago
Grand Canyon Quarry. Cutting stone with a circular saw.
Just a giant quarry in Australia. Called Blue Mountains
Blue Mountains in Australia from a different perspective
Banaue Rice Terraces
And here is Canyon De Chelly National Monument. USA. National monument. Here, apparently, mining was done with saws.
Painted Hills are painted hills in Oregon.
Officially:
This place attracts thousands of tourists every year, especially those interested in geology and paleontology. Of course, a considerable number of photographers also come here in search of magical landscape photography.
Painted Hills is an area protected by the US government and all 1267 hectares of land represent the historical heritage of modern Americans.
I'll tell you more. It seems there are no natural mountains or gorges on this planet. Do you see the photo? This is a giant quarry. Although there are no obvious tiers, it is clear that this is a quarry. I trust my intuition.
Now let's move on to the worst part. Now I will show you how deserts are created on Earth. Notice how the bucket wheel excavator removes layer by layer of rock from large areas.
One more photo. There are 2 of them here. They remove two layers from one area at once. In the lower left corner there is a large bulldozer driving. Consider the scale.
This photo is clickable. Look, the excavator is removing a layer 30-40 meters high. The bottom of the quarry is a huge area and it is absolutely flat, like a table. Convenient for moving the excavator.
A couple more photos
It turns out that on our planet there are quarries the size of several countries or the size of an entire desert. For example, in the territory of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Iran, there are no fertile soils for the most part because from almost the entire area of these countries a layer of rock 100 meters thick was removed, including the soil and all living things. It's hard to believe, but you have to believe your eyes. It looks like the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea are giant flooded quarries. Yes, all the areas on the planet colored yellow in Google Maps are the bottom of quarries.
Look. The Boszhira tract is located in the western part of the Ustyurt plateau. Kazakhstan. Do you see that the hill behind the Volkswagen is a wall formed by a bucket wheel excavator?
Another Ustyurt plateau. Clickable. There is a group of cars in the middle of the photo. As far as the eye can see, the top layer of soil 100 meters thick has been removed. If you splash water here with a layer of 15 meters, you will get an analogue of the Sea of Azov.
Sea of Azov. Flooded old quarry. The bottom is as flat as a table on which rotary excavators rolled. Maximum depth 15 meters.
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The book of Ecclesiastes is one of the most interesting parts of the Old Testament, since it is not a religious, but a philosophical text, understanding the relationship between man and the Universe. Unfortunately, the text is permeated with fatalism and a pessimistic view of the world and people. Among other observations, the book reports that he “knew wisdom, madness and” and came to the conclusion that all this is “languor of spirit”, and the one who “increases knowledge multiplies.”
The author of the book of Ecclesiastes advises to give up trying to improve the world and humanity, and instead enjoy life.
From a certain point of view, this idea is quite fair, since the abundance of information, its comprehension and the identification of cause-and-effect relationships can lead a person to rather sad conclusions. In principle, this thesis is illustrated by the famous Russian proverb “the less you know, the better you sleep.” Even in the most primitive sense, this expression is true, because the less negative information is known, the less reason for sadness. This is why many people choose to ignore news reports to avoid getting upset.
Much knowledge - many sorrows
However, King Solomon did not only mean a conscious refusal of current news. The fact is that the process of cognition is usually associated with disappointment. The less reliable information available to a person, the more scope there is for the imagination. Since dark dreams are usually not typical for people, some idea based on insufficient knowledge, supplemented by fantasies, will almost always be more rosy than in reality.
The word "ecclesiastes" roughly means "preaching to a group of people."
Finally, mixed with these griefs is regret about human actions and their motives. Here, as in the previous case, the problem is that real people are often quite different from the idea of them. For example, many children, having matured, are disappointed in their favorite childhood heroes, having learned that their actions were driven not by noble motives, but by a banal lack of money or ambition. On the other hand, such reasoning seems somewhat one-sided, but this is the problem with almost the entire book of Ecclesiastes. In real life, you should not forget that by consciously or subconsciously depriving yourself of certain knowledge, you not only reduce the likelihood of disappointment, but also make your life more boring and insipid. Of course, much knowledge can lead to many sorrows, but existence without knowledge at all is much worse, so do not deprive yourself of the joy of knowing the world, despite the gloomy conclusions of King Solomon.
(oratory speech)
How often we hear from our wisest teachers and our revered parents “Scientia est potentia” - “Knowledge is power” or another popular expression - “Knowledge is light, ignorance is darkness.” But have you, dear citizens, thought about the question of whether these words are true for each of us or whether life presents us with situations in which it is better not to know the truth? This is the topic that my speech will be devoted to today.
The thinkers of ancient times and the poets of our state known to us expressed other ideas in their works; for them, knowledge was not an absolute criterion of happiness and a guarantee of a good life. The ruler of the kingdom of Israel, the legendary Solomon, the son of King David and Bathsheba, in the “Book of Ecclesiastes” brings to our reflection clear evidence that “from much wisdom comes much sorrow, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.” Is it so? I support Solomon’s thought, because even my small life experience makes me convinced of the truth of these words.
O highly respected citizens, what are we trying to understand while living in this mortal world? The essence of things and the secrets of nature, human psychology and oneself. Yes! The hardest thing for us to know is ourselves. But don’t you think, honorable citizens, and you, oh wise masters, that sometimes it is better not to know the truth hidden behind the veil of consciousness?
How joyful a young mind is when it discovers something new and, as it seems to it, something hitherto unknown! And what disappointment awaits him when he finds out that someone has already made this discovery a long time ago. Knowledge brought him misfortune, but a fool would remain in joy and happiness, naively believing that he was wiser than everyone who lived before him. Solomon, through the mouth of Ecclesiastes, said: “There is no other happiness for a person than to eat and drink, and so that his soul may feel good from his labor.” But the one who finds out that the work was in vain will not be happy, his soul will not have peace. So, O highly respected citizens, is it really necessary for us to remain fools and refuse to know the truth by following this?
No! No, I do not encourage you to remain ignorant! For “wisdom is the best weapon, and one erring person will destroy a lot of good things.” Walking along any path, a fool, meeting people smarter than himself, will still look like a fool in their eyes. And considering himself wise, he only deceives himself, for “he lacks the intelligence” to convince others of his wisdom.
But how often, O honorable citizens, does one fool meet with many wise men? No, much more often a wise man finds himself in the company of fools. But even in this case, trouble overtakes him: human stupidity knows no bounds and what is beyond the understanding of fools is subjected to ridicule and mockery. How many cases does history know when the wisest people were persecuted by their compatriots and declared crazy? Great multitude. Their names, although known to us, will be forgotten over time. And it makes no difference whether a person was a fool during his lifetime or whether he amazed humanity with his wisdom - “the fate is the same for everyone.” “The wise man dies as well as the fool.”
“Scio me nihil scire” - “I know that I know nothing.” That's what Socrates said. And if we decided to connect these sayings of Solomon and Socrates, it would turn out that he who knows nothing knows no grief. But, oh honorable citizens, doesn’t this also mean that the knowledge of our ignorance brings us sadness? Later, much later, Giordano Bruno wrote that he who does not see his own blindness is doubly blind.
It’s bitter and scary for me when I see a generation of young blind men wandering in the darkness of ignorance and devoting their lives only to entertainment. Time will pass, both you and I will disappear, and none of the fools now growing up will be able to remember our names. And none of them will be able to see a single sage in the crowd. And there will not be a single wise man who understands that there are fools around him.
Whether to be a fool and remain eternally happy, closing your eyes to the truth, or to be open to knowledge and become wiser, but suffer from understanding the imperfections of the world and the people living around us - everyone chooses for himself. Our life is just chasing the wind. And while we are alive, I urge you, oh honorable citizens, to KNOW, for we, the living, have such a choice, for “the dead know nothing.” Know and feel this life in all its contradictions and richness of emotions and feelings. And if you feel bad in your soul, know that you are ALIVE. And you are much more alive than those who are eternally happy, but are not able to feel human grief.
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Antique image, ChSU, Cherepovets, 2012.
Blzh. Augustine
because in much wisdom there is much sorrow; and whoever increases knowledge increases sorrow
The human race tends to value knowledge of earthly and heavenly things very highly. But, of course, the best [of its representatives] are those who prefer self-knowledge to this knowledge. A soul that knows its weakness is more worthy of praise than one... that remains in the dark about how to achieve its salvation and affirmation. Who, having been raised by the ardor of the Holy Spirit, has already awakened to God and [who] in love for Him depreciated before himself, wanting, but not having the strength to enter into Him; and whoever, being enlightened by Him, turned his attention to himself, and also saw and knew that it is impossible to mix his ailments with His purity, considers it sweet to shed tears, to ask Him to have mercy again and again, until everything is exhausted his misfortune; beg with hope, [as if] having already achieved a free guarantee of your salvation from the only Savior and Enlightener of men. After all, the knowledge of the needy and suffering does not puff up, because love edifies. For he preferred knowledge to knowledge, since he preferred to know his weakness rather than the limits of the world, the foundations of the earth and the heights of the heavens. And multiplying cognition, he multiplied sorrow, grief from one’s journey because of the desire to [reach] one’s homeland and the good God the Creator.
About the Trinity.
So it is obvious that the antiquity of the letter, if the newness of the spirit is lacking, is more likely to make us guilty through acquaintance with sin than to free us from sin. Why is it written elsewhere: ... He who increases knowledge increases sorrow (Eccl. 1:18). Not because the law itself is flawed, but because the authoritative decree has the advantage of visually demonstrating the letters, and not promoting the spirit. If the decree is carried out under fear of punishment, and not out of love for righteousness, then this is an execution due to slavery, and not according to freedom, which means it is not an execution at all. For there is no good fruit that does not grow from the root of love.
About spirit and letter.
Lopukhin A.P.
because in much wisdom there is much sorrow; and whoever increases knowledge increases sorrow
Explanatory Bible.
For in the abundance of wisdom is the abundance of indignation: and he who adds wisdom adds sorrow. The more someone comprehends wisdom, the more indignant he is that he is subject to vices and is far from the virtues to which he strives (Wis. 6:7). And since the strong will endure severe torment, and to whom more is entrusted, the more is demanded, then he who applies wisdom also applies grief, is distressed by sorrow for God and grieves over his sins. Therefore the Apostle says: “Whoever makes me happy, then accept sorrow from me”(2 Cor. 2:2) . But perhaps we can also understand here that the wise man grieves that wisdom is hidden in such distance and depth, and is not communicated to the mind as light is to vision, but is achieved with some torment, unbearable labor, constant deepening and study .
Commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes.