Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
In a society that tries to standardize thinking individuality is not highly prized.
A brain is a society of very small simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together out of that arises a kind of smartness.
Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms molecules cells tissues and organs.