In these unfiltered, un-moderated social media posts people are speculating about others' motivations. And you could no more put that in a peer review for a journal than you could fly.

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.

If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.

It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.

Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.

I publish things that in my judgment are good science.

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

I love brooding in a bucolic valley about your endless compassion.

*You only get one chance to make a first impression.* Ah, whatever!!! Who said you get three chances to make the second impression?!!

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance silence order resolution frugality industry sincerity justice moderation cleanliness tranquility chastity and humility.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Villains are fun to play.

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.