…ultimately even relativists who deny the possibility of objective truth and insist that all claims are merely the narratives of a culture lack the courage of their convictions. The cultural anthropologists or literary scholars who avow that the truths of science are merely the narratives of one culture will still have their child’s infection treated with antibiotics prescribed by a physician rather than a healing song performed by a shaman.

— Steven Pinker, Rationality

People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

A modeler/designer cannot afford to get attached to his own ideas.

— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design

…basing moral rights on intelligence is as arbitrary as using strength as the rule.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

…starting with history discourages the common and distracting tendency we all have to define a problem not by the system’s actual behavior, but by the lack of our favorite solution.

— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems