Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of what problem these theories attempt to solve. They learn but little of the evolution of evolutionary theory.

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

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

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.