Some Tools Of Thought Are So Blunt

It Is To The Riddle Of The Sphinx That I Have Devoted Fifty Years Of Professional Life As An Anthropologist.

Numbers Are The Product Of Counting. Quantities Are The Product Of Measurement. This Means That Numbers Can Conceivably Be Accurate Because There Is A Discontinuity Between Each Integer And The Next.

It Is Impossible, In Principle, To Explain Any Pattern By Invoking A Single Quantity.

Prediction Can Never Be Absolutely Valid And Therefore Science Can Never Prove Some Generalization Or Even Test A Single Descriptive Statement And In That Way Arrive At Final Truth.

There Are Many Matters And Many Circumstances In Which Consciousness Is Undesirable And Silence Is Golden, So That Secrecy Can Be Used As A Marker To Tell Us That We Are Approaching The Holy.