"Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse."

-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

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“I'm straightforward with my kids, I take my kids out and I bring my daughter to dance lessons. I'm teaching my son how to ski, and my wife supports them and my wife has some issues. What, you just dismiss them? You just walk away? I don't walk away from anyone, Bill, in life! I'm sitting here and support people that are down and out! All these rich and elitist people, I'm sick of them! I'm sick of them! No, they're perfect. They don't do nothing! Get outta here! 'They don't do nothing!' They're the biggest crooks around!”

Source : "Reporter's notebook: In the heart of Ford Nation with Toronto's embattled mayor". Interview with Bill Weir, www.cnn.com. November 18, 2013.
“Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.”
“As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots programmed to ensure the survival of their genes. I don't think they will want to see themselves as digital computers either. To be told by someone with impeccable scientific credentials that they are nothing of the kind can only be pleasing.”
“If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.”
“This moment contains all moments.”
“Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is what I believe in. If you want to call it God or spirituality, that's all up to you. Basically I believe in something that's bigger than myself, and that gives my life meaning.”

Source : "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbaa.org. September 3, 2013.
“One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.”

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