Everything – Page 171 – A book of aphorisms
Jun 272017
 

Gross intolerance of unpopular opinion may do for literature what the Hays Code did for movies: one must be clever when one cannot be frank.

Jun 202017
 

The less our beliefs have to do with our actions, the more we cherish them.

Jun 192017
 

If none of your other beliefs depend on evolution being true, you might as well be a creationist.

Jun 162017
 

Polarization, n.   A state that follows from everyone being continuously informed of what everyone else is thinking, about everything.

Jun 152017
 

We have learned to ignore philosophers when they talk about science but remain in thrall to scientists when they talk about philosophy.

Jun 142017
 

If the practitioners of other disciplines understood science more they would imitate it less.