What is provably false is generally trivial.
Oct 202017
Thinking
Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
—Whitehead
Sep 182017
A class of failed disciplines — psychiatry, education, macroeconomics — unable to raise the mean, lower the variance and declare victory.
Sep 122017
What politicians say about science is as silly as what scientists say about politics.
Sep 062017
Placebo is most of medicine, and nocebo is most of philosophy.
Aug 142017
Everyone is conservative about what he understands, and ought to be about what he does not.
Aug 072017
Humans have improved modestly in acquiring knowledge but vastly in transmitting it.
Jul 042017
Reasonable, adj. Good at thinking of reasons.
Jun 192017
If none of your other beliefs depend on evolution being true, you might as well be a creationist.
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 122017
We fret too much over the contradictions among our beliefs, in the unlikely event that we notice them at all.