Part Of The Maturity Of The Sciences

If You Enjoy Reading, Writing, Learning, And Sharing What You Have Learned, Don't Hesitate To Look For A Life Where You Can Continue To Do Those Things. It Could Be As A Scientist, An Educator, An Editor, A Journalist, The Founder Of An Organization. You Only Live Once, And It Is A Tragedy If You Deny Yourself These Options Without Trying To Pursue Them.

Twenty-five Years Ago, The Notion Was You Could Create A General Problem-solver Software That Could Solve Problems In Many Different Domains. That Just Turned Out To Be Totally Wrong.

Beauty Reveals Itself In The Course Of An Experience With An Object.

While We May Continue To Use The Words Smart And Stupid, And While Iq Tests May Persist For Certain Purposes, The Monopoly Of Those Who Believe In A Single General Intelligence Has Come To An End. Brain Scientists And Geneticists Are Documenting The Incredible Differentiation Of Human Capacities, Computer Programmers Are Creating Systems That Are Intelligent In Different Ways, And Educators Are Freshly Acknowledging That Their Students Have Distinctive Strengths And Weaknesses.

A Good Person Is One Who Follows The Ten Commandments And The Golden Rule. There Is Plenty Of Precedent In History To Guide Us And We Probably Evolved To Be Sensitive To Bible-golden Rule Situations. But The Dilemmas Faced By A Worker - A Journalist, An Architect, An Auditor - Or By A Citizen (what Position To Take On Stem Cell Research, Whether To Run For Office, What Is The Proper Balance Between Taxation And Social Nets) - Are Not Questions That Can Be Answered By Traditional Texts Or Precedents.