He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.

What are the important problems of your field?

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.

In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.

He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.

Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the laws have later been found to apply over much wider ranges of observations and much more accurately than the original data justified.

If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?