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Well, wow. This is an honor: reddit.com put up a quote of mine on their science section:

Right there in the middle is a quotation from me: "Teach a man to reason, and he'll think for a lifetime." That was from my speech The Goals of Skepticism (commonly referred to as my Don't Be A Dick speech), which I gave at TAM a couple of years ago.

There it is, highlighted. I'm really happy to see that. I liked the phrase when I came up with it, and it's popped up here and there (like on a mug, and in a Symphony of Science). The only thing that bugs me about the phrase is the use of the masculine gender. I struggled to make the phrase more neutral, but since it's based on an existing aphorism -- "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day; teach a ...

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