Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

Science probes; it does not prove.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

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.