By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .