Evan Kane

“The cultural goal would be to raise the standard of rational due diligence, in both public discourse and personal reflection. Until we do this, the scientific revolution is not truly complete. Science has not reached its full potential until citizens have the rationality skills to responsibly interpret science stories in the media.”
― Ivan Phillips, Textbook Rationality: Rationality - and why we should teach it in schools

“Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man. —Bertrand Russell”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

“the competing theory must not only account for any new evidence, but also for the evidence that we amassed previously.”
― Ivan Phillips, Textbook Rationality: Rationality - and why we should teach it in schools

“The commonplace notion that presumes measurements are exact quantities ignores the usefulness of simply reducing uncertainty, especially if eliminating uncertainty is not feasible (as is usually the case).”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business