“…when you know exactly what you’re doing, you get into grooves…you get kind of stuck on your assumptions about the world. And while nobody wants to make mistakes all the time, the liberating effect that a mistake has is that it takes you out of your expectations and your predictable routines.”—Searching For The Origins of Creativity
“Science is not received wisdom, but informed guesswork. It may well be wrong. That’s life. Besides, what’s the alternative? To substitute our own gut feelings for scientific analysis, flawed though it may be? We should always be willing to question the outcomes of science, but we should be even more willing to question ourselves.”—In praise of scientific error
