Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.