It would have occurred to approximately no one in history to ask if what he was doing made him happy.
Sep 222017
Sep 212017
Influential books usually have a few readers, who usually have a great many.
Sep 202017
There’s no harm in opinions, as long as you don’t believe them.
Sep 182017
A class of failed disciplines — psychiatry, education, macroeconomics — unable to raise the mean, lower the variance and declare victory.
Sep 162017
If policy simply achieved its ends, a new outlet would have to be found for the ingenuity expended in its defense.
Sep 152017
It is in fields where expertise is dubious or bogus that practitioners stress the importance of deferring to expertise.
Sep 142017
To write something that could not have been written any other way usually takes several drafts.
Sep 132017
We ought to think of the present as if it were the past; instead we think of the past as if it were the present.
Sep 122017
What politicians say about science is as silly as what scientists say about politics.
Sep 112017
Prejudice, n. The precipitate of a principle.