“If you're if you don't value logic, there's no logical argument you can give someone to say that they should value it. If if someone doesn't value evidence, there's no evidence you could give them to say that they should value it. So that so it, you know, epistemology sort of bites its own tail”

“your epistemology should always precede everything else like why you're doing something how you know what you know is always the first question”

“That type of process of learning how to have like external dialectics with others while at the same time learning more about how your own mind works. >> Mhm. >> And then learning where the paradoxes are how to smell out paradoxes where a hypothesis doesn't fit with the empirical data of reality”

“In terms of science, there are three things that are not only unanswered by science but I think are unanswerable by science. How the world uh came into being. How life came into being and how the human mind which is unique and does not exist in any other creature came into being.”

“when you put science in charge of power you basically created a fundamental conflict of interest among scientists that can't be avoided”

“I am excited to have the opportunity to refine my ideas only if I am willing to admit that my ideas are when your blade yeah only if I'm willing to let go of my convictions only if I'm willing to admit that I'm wrong does holding on to the idea even mean anything”

“I take it scientific facts to be a subset of facts about the world uh arrived at by the methods of science um and by the community of science not just simple observations about how the world Works”