Archive for March, 2007

Francis Bacon’s New Organon

Monday, March 12th, 2007

It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
This reminds me of that “definition of insanity” which is so often attributed to Einstein. But this comes from Francis Bacon, circa 1620. In his seminal […]

World Tour

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

People have been asking me why I haven’t been blogging. Well, here it is. I arrived in London, today. I’m going to Scotland next week. I just came from Sweden. I arrived in Sweden from Australia, by way of New Zealand. This is the longest and most intense road trip I’ve done since I started […]