At The Moment Of Insight, A Potential

I Think That Creativity Depends On Having Sufficient Indeterminacy Around For A New Pattern To Arise Up Within It.

The Facts Of Science Are Real Enough, And So Are The Techniques That Scientists Use, And So Are The Technologies Based On Them. But The Belief System That Governs Conventional Scientific Thinking Is An Act Of Faith.

A Lot Of Us Have All Sorts Of Ideas, And We Select Some Rather Than Others And Give Expression To Those... And Some Works Of Art Are More Successful Than Others. Some Languish In Obscurity And Are Never Heard Of Again, While Others Form The Foundation Of A Whole School Of Art.

The Idea Is That There Is A Kind Of Memory In Nature. Each Kind Of Thing Has A Collective Memory. So, Take A Squirrel Living In New York Now. That Squirrel Is Being Influenced By All Past Squirrels.

In Practice, The Goal Of Skepticism Is Not The Discovery Of Truth, But The Exposure Of Other People's Errors. It Plays A Useful Role In Science, Religion, Scholarship, And Common Sense. But We Need To Remember That It Is A Weapon Serving Belief Or Self-interest; We Need To Be Skeptical Of Skeptics. The More Militant The Skeptic, The Stronger The Belief.