{"id":1229,"date":"2013-05-24T19:34:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T19:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:49:05","slug":"captain-the-most-elementary-and-valuable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Captain, the most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is \u2018I do not know.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Data, <em>Star Trek: TNG<\/em> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/christiantheatheist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">christiantheatheist<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Going on the blog because I am a huge Trekkie. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/women-in-science.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">women-in-science<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly one of the best scientific quotes from the show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain, the most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is \u2018I do not know.\u2019 Data, Star Trek: TNG (via christiantheatheist) Going on the blog because I am a huge Trekkie. \u00a0 (via women-in-science) Clearly one of the best scientific quotes from the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,338,339,340,337],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-data","tag-sttng","tag-startrek-thenextgeneration","tag-thenextgeneration","tag-tng","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}