Worker. Abstract Theoretical Biologist. I solve problems that nobody else can. alexbuckley12@proton.me linktr.ee/AlexBuckley11
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"Tempos of the whole economic development and the successes of communist construction in our country depend in many respects on improving agriculture."
-M. Lewin "Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates" 1974 pg. 348
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"The Master said: The people may be made to follow a course, but not to understand the reason why."
-Confucius "The Analects" 4.8.9
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"The Master took four subjects for his teaching, — culture, conduct, conscientiousness, and good faith."
-Confucius "The Analects" 4.7.24
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"My disciples! Do you think I possess something occult? I hide nothing occult from you. I do nothing that is not made known to you my disciples: — you have the real Ch’iu."⁹
Footnote 9: The real Ch’iu means Confucius himself.
-Confucius "The Analects" 4.7.23
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"How utterly fallen off I am! For long I have not dreamed as of yore that I saw the Duke of Chou.²
Footnote 2: Duke Wên of Chou was Confucius’s ideal of a ruler."
-Confucius "The Analects" 4.7.5
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"The Master said: 'The scholar who becomes widely versed in letters and who restrains his learning within the bounds of good conduct is not likely to leave the track.'"
-Confucius "The Analects" 3.6.25
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"In science 'repetitions' of observations are not inductive confirmations but critical attempts to check oneself—to catch oneself in a mistake"
—Karl Popper, Unended Quest.
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"We must become the makers of our fate. We must learn to do things as well as we can, and to look out for our mistakes."
—Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 2.
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i bring a sort of "third world mindset" to "western academia" that other scholars dont really vibe with.
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"The valley spirit never dies;
It is the woman, primal mother.
Her gateway is the root of heaven and earth.
It is like a veil barely seen.
Use it; it will never fail."
-Lao Tzu "Tao Te Ching" ch. 6
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if stanford wants more underprivileged white representation they can always hire me as a visiting scholar or whatever. im more than happy to relocate. @Stanford let me build your biology department.
Jun 14
Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly
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"Yield and overcome;
Bend and be straight;
Empty and be full;
Wear out and be new;
Have little and gain;
Have much and be confused."
-Lao Tzu "Tao Te Ching" ch. 22
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"Tzŭ Kung said: ‘What I do not wish others to do to me, that also I wish not to do to them.’ ‘Tz’ŭ!’ observed the Master, ‘that is a point to which you have not attained.'"
Confucius, "The Analects" 3.5.11
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Want to know why I am going scorched earth on bad actors in academia?
Because they've relied on ideoligical protection for years to insulate themselves from normal and necessary challenges to unethical scholarly behavior. And because they smear and bully anyone who challenges their ideological hegemony from within the university system.
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"The true philosopher devotes himself to the fundamentals, for when those have been established right courses naturally evolve."
Confucius "The Analects" 1.1.2
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Jun 13
"My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them."
Lao Tzu "Tao Te Ching" ch. 70
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Jun 13
"Traditionally it has been supposed that the book of Lao Tzŭ was written by a man called Lao Tzŭ. This name should perhaps be translated as ‘Old Master.’ Lao Tzŭ is alleged to have been a somewhat older contemporary of Confucius and a keeper of archives at the...
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capital. Confucius is supposed to have met him there, in a celebrated encounter that has been amply shown to be fictitious."
-H. G. Creel “Chinese Thought” 1953 pg. 84
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