Richard Rorty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
“Explaining rationality and epistemic authority by reference to what society lets us say, rather than the latter by the former, is the essence of what I shall call ‘epistemological behaviorism,’ an attitude common to Dewey and Wittgenstein.” [Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979).p.174]
“Metaphor can take you places you never imagined you’d go. Metaphor and a little snatch of narrative. A hot bowl of soup. A crust of dark bread. Go.”
“We have to change our language for our culture to become a better one…I really strongly believe in the notion of Negative Capability that Keats spoke of. The poet can have no identity. A poet has to be constantly filling in for other things…For the I to become the you.”
“not so much looking for the shape
as being available
to any shape that may be
summoning itself
through me
from the self not mine but ours.”
Metabolomics Toolbox
“…metabolomics…[studies]…the small molecule metabolites found in an organism…metabolomics offers a unique opportunity to look at genotype-phenotype as well as genotype-envirotype relationships…only a quarter to half of endogenous human metabolites in blood or urine have been positively identified.”
How to Write a Scientific Paper
Abstract
We (meaning I) present observations on the scientific publishing process
which (meaning that) are important and timely in that unless I have more
published papers soon, I will never get another job. These observations
are consistent with the theory that it is difficult to do good science, write
good scientific papers, and have enough publications to get future jobs.
The Writer’s Writing Guide: Attitude
Writing is a slow learning, through content, style, process, and daily evidence of your tenacity, of who you are, what you value, and what you want from life.










