No one who thinks of himself as open-minded can be persuaded otherwise.
Apr 292019
Erring
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham
Apr 252019
If you maintain that IQ has no meaning, I can probably guess your IQ.
Apr 122019
Everyone should have one friend whose thought is a digest of fashionable absurdities. It saves no end of time.
Apr 022019
To do the same thing over and over expecting different results is reputed to be insanity, and yet we persist in elections.
Mar 182019
Not everything is as dumb as it looks, but that’s the way to bet.
Mar 072019
That the great are so rarely good speaks mostly to the poverty of our moral intuitions.
Jan 292019
If you can convince a man to believe nothing, you can convince him to believe anything.
Jan 232019
The best-attested, most frequently reproduced result in social science is that social scientists do not have the faintest idea how to conduct a study.
Jan 162019
Not making the same mistake twice seems exceedingly optimistic.
Jan 042019
The stupider the idea, the more intelligent you have to be to believe it.