Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-34600037-20200307022815/@comment-31763506-20200310031214

The human imaginative faculty to theorize has to be tempered with rigorous self-skepticism to keep those theories constrained by evidence. And it isn't enough to have a theory that isn't contradicted by the available evidence, it should also be simpler than any other theory that explains that evidence.

The most impressive intuitive leaps and fertile imaginations I ever encountered were in a mental hospital.