Scientists, especially highly successful ones, are often reluctant to write about themselves, to tell their own stories, of research and the pursuit of new knowledge. Modesty, of the value of appearing modest, is only one reason for the furtiveness of…

By Clark Miller People are generally far more rational than our hyper-scientific culture is willing to acknowledge. Occasionally, however, faulty assumptions are so deeply built into even scientific ways of thinking that errors get perpetuated over and over without ever…

By David Guston In the midst of the full-frontal politics that now passes for the nominating conventions of the two major political parties in the United States comes a modest opportunity for sober reflection by the candidates on some crucial…