Science can’t tell you why anything happens.
The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!
Power is neither male or female.
Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.
It’s hard to decide who’s truly brilliant; it’s easier to see who’s driven, which in the long run may be more important.
Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That’s the game in science.
One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one’s work.
Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.
Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.
To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.
There isn’t any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind.
Readers probably haven’t heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
They always say they didn’t. I never heard of one who said, ‘You know, I deserve this.’ Never happens.
Harassment is about power – the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
Real life isn’t a series of interconnected events occurring one after another – like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.
I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.
The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it’s sold without warranty. It’s flashy, but it’s basically junk.