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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.

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.