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Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
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Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 29 April 2017 source ↗
Jumping to conclusions. We all create hypotheses in undisciplined fashion, and then you have to go back and be intellectually disciplined.
Often, what happens in science is you got a problem and you solve it, and then there’s not much else to do and you have to move on. But the ribosome turned out to be a rather rich gold mine. Perhaps I’m a little intellectually lazy and feel like, “Why should I bother thinking about something else?” Maybe at some point, I should have thought, “I should do something different.”
inversion frequently will solve problems which nothing else will solve. And in life, unless you’re more gifted than Einstein, inversion will help you solve problems that you can't solve in other ways.
My worst intellectual habit has to be overanalyzing everything. I do it all the time, because there are too many options in this world.
It’s very gratifying to grow utterly incensed by the Mail Online and come away from it full of fury and absolute outrage at its prejudice and xenophobia — and support for Brexit.
Whitney Cummings, Henry Rollins, Celeste Ng, Courtney Maum, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Adam Gopnik
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