"In the ancient days when gods played their own games, and had their own celebrations, tossing lightning bolts between…"

"All I'm saying is, if you celebrate Festivus, you may live a little longer. You are getting back to the essentials, t…"

"… Hassan promotes the BITE model as a scientific method for identifying “destructive cults,” claiming it can distingu…"

"When one appeals solely to the truth of a discourse to authorize it intellectually and socially, one represses reflec…"

"On the other hand, ... a pragmatic turn ... expands the number of parties who may participate more or less as equals …"

"Where a discourse is redeemed ultimately by metatheoretical appeals, experts step forward as the authorities. This si…"

"In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoret…"

"I remember having listened to Fermi’s discussions on hydrodynamics with von Neumann. (These took the strange form of …"

"In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there w…"

"If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it migh…"