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• At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new idea
  o matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new....
• At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new idea
  o matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new....
• THEORY: System of ideas meant to explain something, chosen with a view to originality, controversialism, incomprehensibility, and how good it will look in print.
• New York's got the ways and means, just won't let you be.
• Sherry: Hey Bart! Our dad says your dad is incompetent.
  Bart: What does incompetent mean? Terry: It means he spends more time yacking and scarfing down donuts than doing his job....
• If iterate means to do again and again, then what does reiterate mean?
• Tradition does not mean that the living are dead; it means the dead are living.
  -- Harold Macmilla...
• hack together vt. [common] To throw something together so it will work.
  Unlike `kluge together' or cruft together, this does not necessarily have negative connotations....