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T. H. Huxley wrote, “battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.”

If you can explain everything, you can explain nothing.

Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they seem so obviously, even ineluctably, just. - Stephen Jay Gould

IMO: , , is given only cursory role (despite the rhetoric) in . Without having a habit of mind to doubt our data, we cannot know when we are deceiving ourselves.

“We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information....” Gould had that correct!

We are bombarded with too much [information] in our inordinately complex world; if we cannot sort the trivial from the profound, we are lost in terminal overload. -Stephen Jay Gould

Stasis is the norm for complex systems; change, when provoked at all, is usually rapid and episodic. -Stephen Jay Gould

Yeah, so the Earth may (surely will) survive human hubris... humans, not so much. from

I’ve concluded leaders who recommend, “staying in your lane,” are not worth following

My uncle who died from ALS would refuse rides saying, “I want to walk while I still can.” I forget his some days.

The reason see no connection between and their goals may be they have no goals. Perhaps part of our job as is to help them develop goals, directions, and interests.

When your protocols limit meaningful interaction, it is time to abandon them.

“The loss of individuality makes society vulnerable to herdlike behaviors ranging from mob violence and warfare to mass panic and allegiance to dictatorships.”

“The effort was worth a try, the least we could do was fail.”

A blog from years ago that still needs attention:
Enough with the "Learning Styles" Already! - Scientific American Blog Network t.co/pTnUFEl4B2

A myth is an event that never happened that people keep talking about.

If you can identify important gaps in your field, then you have expertise worthy of attention.

Anyone else think diagramming sentences helped them become better ?

Humans adopt that fit with their nature and beliefs. Economic or other advantages are secondary.

When a technology “fails” (you may define failure any way you wish, and your definition may change depending on the situation) answer these questions:

“What would have made the technology easier to use?”
“What would have made the technology more useful?”

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