Today you are you,
that is truer than true.
There is no one alive
who is youer than you.
--Dr Seuss

Vote for the man who promises least;
he'll be the least disappointing.
--Bernard Barush, Biznessman

(1) It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition, or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all ( Read more... )

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What skeptical thinking boils down to is the means to construct, and to understand, a reasoned argument and, especially important, to recognize a fallacious or fraudulent argument. The question is not whether we like the conclusion that emerges out of a train of reasoning, but whether the conclusion that emerges out of a train follows from the ( Read more... )

The problem's not that the truth is harsh but that liberation from ignorance is as painful as being born. Run after truth until you're breathless. Accept the pain involved in re-creating yourself afresh. These ideas will take a life to comprehend, and hard one interspersed with drunken moments.
--Nagui Mahfouz in Palace of Desire

I mean, I AM allowed to just go off about what I think, right? That seems to be what the majority of moralizing politicians do these days. It amazes me how surely the devil will assume high moral ground and dictate from it. The adjectives are awesome. Misguided. Dangerous. Wrongheaded. That last one is a particular favorite of mine. Did ( Read more... )

There are no facts in science,
only probabilities.
Only fools and zealots deal in absolutes.
--Peter D'Adamo

I don't ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do.
--Dr. House

Truth, like gold,
is to be obtained not by its growth
but by washing away from it
all that is not gold.
--Leo Tolstoy