Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

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

People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

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.