Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.