Precision requires elision.
Jun 152015
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
Jun 122015
First Law of Social Science: All effects are weaker than they appear.
Jun 092015
Truth is often radically antipodal, but never moderate.
May 292015
Machinery does mostly good as reality and mostly harm as metaphor.
Apr 292015
The trouble with physics is that it doesn’t scale.
Apr 232015
There is almost no contemporary imbecility that cannot be found in Rousseau.
Apr 172015
The triumph of physics has poisoned many disciplines, including physics.
Mar 302015
Reality defeats taxonomy.
Feb 272015
In science the social construction of reality is known as peer review.
Feb 242015
The struggle to assimilate a new idea without disturbing the old ones is hideously physical, like becoming a werewolf.