Being busy needs to be visible, and deep thinking is not.
Donald Gemana, Stuart Gemanb: Science in the age of selfies.
Schlagwort: Normativität
Even More Outside Academia.
Arxivthority.
Indeed, if you look at the scientific enterprise today, almost all of its institutionalized procedures are methods not for testing hypotheses, but for filtering hypotheses: [...]
Wanted Numbers.
We want our numbers not merely to verify mathematical formulæ, but to apply in the right way to common objects. We want to have ten fingers and two eyes and one nose.
Bertrand Russell: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Easy.
English is the price we pay for talking the same language.
Ampelismus.
I agreed with her, still slightly surprised by how readily I'd been accepted by the other couriers, despite my gender, accent, lack of tattoos and obedience of traffic signals.