Opinion Is The Companion Of

The Best Reaction To A Paradox Is To Invent A Genuinely New And Deep Idea.

There Are Two Ways In Which A Science Develops; In Response To Problems Which Is Itself Creates, And In Response To Problems That Are Forced On It From The Outside.

The Important Thing Is To Be Able To Understand Anyone Who Has Something Useful To Say. - There Is A General Moral Here. Be Very Careful And Very Clear About What You Say. But Do Not Be Dogmatic About Your Own Language. Be Prepared To Express Any Careful Thought In The Language Your Audience Will Understand. And Be Prepared To Learn From Someone Who Talks A Language With Which You Are Not Familiar.

Thers Is This Wonderful Iconoclast At Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, Who Says That Our Mathematics Is The Result Of A Random Walk, By Which He Means What We Call Mathematics. Likewise, I Think, For The Sciences.

We Favor Hypotheses For Their Simplicity And Explanatory Power, Much As The Architect Of The World Might Have Done In Choosing Which Possibility To Create.