Multiple descriptions are better than one.

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.

All experience is subjective.

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

There are no monotone "values" in biology.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

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