If you go faster than accuracy then you don’t really know where you are going.  If you go slower than inaccuracy, you still don’t know where you are going, but then that is the point of slowing down.

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When positive thinking is supposed to be superior to circumstance, it often sets in motion an unanticipated causal sequence, quite frequently, stagnation and  disappointment.  Only deconstructive thinking finds causal sequences, a constructive return for an investment in the negative.  I have a positive attitude about such negative thinking.


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With science you can flip a fact and still learn a lot; with religion when you flip a fact you learn to never try that again.

 

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Science proceeds through “trial and error,” which sounds a whole lot better than “rationalized incompetence.”  Science in fact may be not much more than the competent recognition incompetence.
 


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Cognitive dissonance is how we blink away the wrong right answers. Science is how we open our eyes to the right wrong result.
 

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