Joe

“I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.”
― James Gould Cozzens

“The very phrase "inference to the best explanation" should wave a red flag to us. What is good, better, best? What values are slipped in here, under a common name, and where do they come from?
The appeal to explanation brings out into the open the glaring fact that we have a risk taking pursuit of truth. Science is brave and dares to enter dangerous waters. Empirical science goes
for bold conjectures and audacious hypotheses, it offers them as basis for prediction and action while the iron is still hot and conclusive evidence still infinitely beyond reach.”
― Bas C. Van Fraassen, The Empirical Stance

“Guile is the shield and spear of the oppressed.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day: A Novel

“religions are merely the garments of faith—and very ill cut they often are,”
― Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day: A Novel