After mastery comes artistry and not before.

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

Science probes; it does not prove.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.