A man with a fixed idea is like a small child with a secret — he tries to hide it but he cannot help himself, and before long some slight provocation will send it gushing forth.
May 132022
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 102022
The frequency of demands for citations and evidence varies inversely with the capacity to understand them. “Source?” is a verbal tic, like Tourette’s.
May 062022
Follow the science, at a discreet distance, say five or ten years.
Apr 252022
Things always make sense, though we rarely do.
Apr 192022
It is shocking to see a man act on an idea.
Apr 072022
It is by his diction, not his thought, that an acolyte may be infallibly recognized. If it consists of fashionable clichés, he has been colonized by a swarm instead of a man.
Mar 172022
When you have replication, you don’t need peer review, and when you have peer review, you don’t get replication.
Mar 152022
Ideology is the tendency to accept or reject a set of logically disconnected propositions en bloc.
Feb 222022
Insanity is a subtle and marvelous logician.
Feb 092022
If a discipline purports to be a science, yet has not produced a universal law to which all of its practitioners agree, it is just giving itself airs.