"The misconception that knowledge needs authority to be genuine or reliable dates back to antiquity, and it still prev…"

"If something is permitted by the laws of physics, then the only thing that can prevent it from being technologically …"

"Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in wor…"

"Experience is indeed essential to science, but its role is different from that supposed by empiricism. It is not the …"

"That progress is both possible and desirable is perhaps the quintessential idea of the Enlightenment. It motivates al…"

"Any theory about improvement raises the question: how is the knowledge of how to make that improvement created? Was i…"

"Mathematical knowledge may, just like our scientific knowledge, be deep and broad, it may be subtle and wonderfully e…"

"Necessary truth is merely the subject-matter of mathematics, not the reward we get for doing mathematics. The object …"

"Kuhn's theory suffers from a fatal flaw. It explains the succession from one paradigm to another in sociological or p…"

"Let me define that [wealth] in a non-parochial way as the repertoire of physical transformations that they would be c…"