Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on February 22, 2006 at 23:38:00 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Perhaps not AR posted by Dan Lind on February 22, 2006 at 22:26:13:
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
The society that scorns excellence in plumbing just because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its philosophy will hold water."
- John William Gardner (1912 - 2002) U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare