{"id":254,"date":"2013-08-20T12:18:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T16:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=254"},"modified":"2013-08-29T22:00:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T02:00:45","slug":"analects-of-the-core-179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/08\/20\/analects-of-the-core-179\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Darwin on the confidence of the ignorant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s analect was inspired by Core alumni Tim Martinez (Core &#8217;07-&#8217;09, CAS &#8217;11) with reference to the study of Evolution and Society occurring in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/cc203\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CC203<\/a>, which Tim marks as one of his favorite courses he&#8217;s taken here at BU.\u00a0 Since taking it, he&#8217;s maintained a strong interest in Sociology, but has persisted in his IR degree.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutdarwin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Darwin<\/a>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ZvsHAAAAIAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=descent+of+Man&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=_DfHkdPyjZ&amp;sig=nnlIuZHCuiELJ510teXoUNHMkZ0&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=Svy-TNPwEcH_lgfIu8XfBw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=3&amp;ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Descent of Man<\/a><\/em> (1871)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s analect was inspired by Core alumni Tim Martinez (Core &#8217;07-&#8217;09, CAS &#8217;11) with reference to the study of Evolution and Society occurring in CC203, which Tim marks as one of his favorite courses he&#8217;s taken here at BU.\u00a0 Since taking it, he&#8217;s maintained a strong interest in Sociology, but has persisted in his IR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[48731,48735,3837,2241,48419,4172,44956,426,5165,48420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}