On Knowing June 25th, 2015 @ 6:18 am PST
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird … So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something […]
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect June 23rd, 2014 @ 10:34 am PST
On reading the news
On Perspective May 1st, 2014 @ 6:13 am PST
There is pleasure in recognising old things from a new viewpoint. Richard P. Feynman
On Mystery January 30th, 2014 @ 6:39 am PST
One thing is that I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs, in different degrees of certainty, about different things. But I’m not absolutely sure of anything and […]
On Knowledge December 2nd, 2013 @ 7:08 am PST
I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there. Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988)
Something Totally Sketchy July 8th, 2000 @ 12:05 am PST
And then, something totally sketchy happens and what you thought you didn’t know you think you might have known and some other things you thought you didn’t know you think that you might know for sure but some other things that you don’t know if you know or don’t know you realize you might know. […]
What Do I Know? July 7th, 2000 @ 10:06 pm PST
Did you ever think you totally knew something and then – suddenly – felt like possibly you had absolutely no clue about whatever it was that you thought you knew? Yeah. I feel like that sometimes. Like now for instance.
