The days of pretending that what happens half-way around the globe does not affect us are over. It is time to drop the pretense if we are interested in human progress. Remember Galileo. Humans would never have walked on the moon if they had continued to pretend (believe) that the earth was the center of the universe.

The first step of the Scientific Method is observation, but observation is not measurement. We need to differentiate between the Scientific Method of Nature and the Scientific Methodologies humans have developed.

The education of the individual is always limited by the education of the whole, never the other way around. The philosophy that humanity can be changed one person at a time is well-intentioned but will never work.

If your theology is not based on an honest appraisal of reality and the text on which your theology is based you are not really in any moral position to question the veracity of any politician.

Why do the overwhelming majority of humans live according to the philosophy that humans are not part of nature? We seem to think that our ability to make choices has placed us out of the jurisdiction of the laws that maintain nature.

Our goal in research is to study and make summary statements about the entire distribution of data associated with our sample, but we do so by making measurements on the individual members of the sample in order to get those individual points of data. Even though our goal is to study the sample we never directly observe the sample; instead we observe the individual members of the sample. The challenge for the statistician/researcher is to recognize that his study of the sample is accomplished by studying the parts of the sample, and that when he studied the individual parts he was only studying the sample, not the individual parts. Synthesis can only be accomplished through analysis but the danger lies in believing that the analysis is the synthesis.

If you don't know the purpose of a thing you are not really in position to assess its effectiveness. After all these years it seems that we don't know the purpose of education and science.