One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious.
I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.
Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.
Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the new features as adaptive to environments. And that's a perfectly good principle. The problem is that there are many evolutionary biologists who view everything that happens in evolution as directly evolved for adaptive benefit. And that just doesn't work. Whenever you build a structure for adaptive reasons, the structure is going to exhibit properties that have nothing to do with adaptation. They're just side consequences.
I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
The school is the manufactory of humanity.
Man is the only animal to borrow tools.
Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.