If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

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

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.

Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what WE call mathematics. Likewise, I think, for the sciences.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.