What politicians say about science is as silly as what scientists say about politics.
Sep 122017
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 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.
Jun 082017
No one would pay an anecdote any mind if its plural were data.
May 192017
God paradoxes are only infinity paradoxes in clerical garb.