But maybe we wrongly define the higher human functions. How we think and feel about everything except questions of pure logic is decided maybe five p… - Charles Sheffield

If deadly violence were to be committed, he was like me. He would think it better to give than to receive.

His sin was something that scientists had done for thousands of years. Scientists didn’t usually change data, not unless they were outright charlatans. But when facts didn’t agree with theory, there was an awful temptation to find reasons for rejecting the offending data and and hanging on to the theory. Ptolemy had done it. Newton had done it. Darwin had done it. Einstein had done so explicitly.

I worry when I hear talk of “this many millions” and “that many billions” from officials who I know have trouble calculating a restaurant tip.