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Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.
You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past
Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.
It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.
Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.
The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No.