“Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject… Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.”

There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.

A problem is something you can do something about. If you can’t do something about it, then it’s not a problem, it’s a predicament. That means it’s something that must be coped with, endured.

The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class.

In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, “What would the world be like if it were true?”

The operationist asks, “What would we have to do to come to believe it?” For the pragmatist the question is, “What would we do if did believe it?”

We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.

Experience is of particulars only.

The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.

We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization.

We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.

We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls’ body mass – I personally think it is demeaning.

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don’t destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.

Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

I put in the work to reaffirm my personal agency because the world thinks that becoming a mother means giving yours up.

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.