Birds and Frogs in Physics - 3 Quarks Daily
States should be humble. Bureaucrats must recognize the limits of their knowledge. There is always a risk that the bird’s-eye view is so grand and sweeping as to induce delusions of omnipotence.
Tim Harford • The Data Detective
One thing that sets these intensely creative individuals apart, as far as I can tell, is that when sitting with their thoughts they are uncommonly willing to linger in confusion.To be curious about that which confuses. Not too rapidly seeking the safety of knowing or the safety of a legible question, but waiting for a more powerful and subtle quest... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
Frogs, bats, humans, and lizards are all just variations on a theme.
Neil Shubin • Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor
Finally, there are the Gregorian creatures, named in honor of Richard Gregory, the psychologist who emphasized the role of thinking tools in providing thinkers with what he called “potential intelligence.” The Gregorian creature’s Umwelt is well stocked with thinking tools, both abstract and concrete: arithmetic and democracy and double-blind studi
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