Research, n: Consider Columbus: He didn’t know where he was going. When he got there he didn’t know where he was. When he got back he didn’t know where he had been. And he did it all on someone else’s money.
Category Archives: Philosophy
Decorous Age
Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rational
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. — Bertrand Russell
Dolphin Intelligence
Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far […]
Philosophy: Murpys Law and Thomas Pynchon
Murphy’s Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel’s Theorem. — Thomas Pynchon, “Gravity’s Rainbow” Gödel’s incompleteness theorems are two theorems of mathematical logic that establish inherent limitations of all but the most trivial axiomatic systems capable of doing arithmetic. The theorems, proven by Kurt Gödel in 1931, are important both in mathematical logic and in […]
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