I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.