“...let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.”
“The challenge for all of us in this day and age is to distinguish between the merely surprising and the truly amazing.”
“Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence”
“...it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths that distinguishes us from the mere animals and gives us Reason and the sciences, raising us to the knowledge of ourselves and of God...”
“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.”
“If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.”