Polytheism is pre-scientific: monotheism is anti-scientific.
May 142013
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
May 082013
What is not indexed may as well not exist.
May 072013
Small men flee from a generalization like small animals from a sudden noise — it might not mean danger, but why take a chance?
May 032013
Nothing so distresses the disciple as the master changing his mind.
Apr 192013
So much to unlearn, so little time.
Apr 172013
More is lost in translation from thought to page than from one language to another.
Apr 152013
Bad to take obscurity for profundity: worse to take clarity for shallowness.
Apr 082013
Profundities are often equivocations — trivially true in one sense, obviously false in another, and deep and subtle only if you do not choose.
Mar 212013
Only intellectuals confuse what they know with what they can articulate.
Feb 072013
Theory owes far more to practice than practice does to theory.