Everyone Has A Hidden Agenda.

The Work Of Science Has Nothing Whatever To Do With Consensus. Consensus Is The Business Of Politics. Science, On The Contrary, Requires Only One Investigator Who Happens To Be Right, Which Means That He Or She Has Results That Are Verifiable By Reference To The Real World. In Science Consensus Is Irrelevant. What Is Relevant Is Reproducible Results. The Greatest Scientists In History Are Great Precisely Because They Broke With The Consensus.

Most Areas Of Intellectual Life Have Discovered The Virtues Of Speculation, And Have Embraced Them Wildly. In Academia, Speculation Is Usually Dignified As Theory.

If You Don't Know History, Then You Don't Know Anything. You Are A Leaf That Doesn't Know It Is Part Of A Tree.

Caring Is Irrelevant. Desire To Do Good Is Irrelevant. All That Counts Is Knowledge And Results

They Don't Have Intelligence. They Have What I Call 'thintelligence.' They See The Immediate Situation. They Think Narrowly And They Call It 'being Focused.' They Don't See The Surround. They Don't See The Consequences.