Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.

Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.

Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.