The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.