Logic Is A Poor Model Of Cause

Science Sometimes Improves Hypotheses And Sometimes Disproves Them. But Proof Would Be Another Matter And Perhaps Never Occurs Except In The Realms Of Totally Abstract Tautology. We Can Sometimes Say That If Such And Such Abstract Suppositions Or Postulates Are Given, Then Such And Such Abstract Suppositions Or Postulates Are Given, Then Such And Such Must Follow Absolutely. But The Truth About What Can Be Perceived Or Arrived At By Induction From Perception Is Something Else Again.

A Man Walking Is Never In Balance, But Always Correcting For Imbalance.

Whenever We Pride Ourselves Upon Finding A Newer, Stricter Way Of Thought Or Exposition … We Lose Something Of The Ability To Think New Thoughts. And Equally, Of Course, Whenever We Rebel Against The Sterile Rigidity Of Formal Thought And Exposition And Let Our Ideas Run Wild, We Likewise Lose. As I See It, The Advances In Scientific Thought Come From A Combination Of Lose And Strict Thinking, And This Combination Is The Most Precious Tool Of Science.

Evolution Has Long Been Badly Taught. In Particular, Students - And Even Professional Biologists - Acquire Theories Of Evolution Without Any Deep Understanding Of What Problem These Theories Attempt To Solve. They Learn But Little Of The Evolution Of Evolutionary Theory.

There Are Times When I Catch Myself Believing That There Is Such A Thing As Something; Which Is Separate From Something Else.