Favorite quotes

From time to time, I come across quotes or articles that are worth saving. The following is a continuously growing list of these for my future self to revisit, reflect upon, and contemplate.

Title ethics

Question: Is it correct to call oneself “Doctor/Scientist/Mathemathician” simply because one has a PhD in that field?

Answer: “… Calling oneself a scientist is not unethical, no more than it is unethical to call oneself a musician without being in the Top100 charts. What is unethical is deliberately representing yourself in a way that causes people to assign you an authority that you do not have.” – nengel in academic stack exchange

Simple Laws

Biology took whatever route it needed to create functioning organisms, without regard to how understandable any part of them would be. […] That’s all it needs to be to function. In total, there is no guarantee - and maybe not even any compelling reasons to expect - that the brain can be described by simple laws. – Grace Lindsay in Models of the Mind