
… fooled. Reasons are masks as well as explanations: stories we tell about the people we used to be. I have been transformed by experience and by other people more often and entirely than I care to admit — yet it’s only by admitting this that I can start to appreciate how much change remains possible.
…ck’s dictum about the progress of science and its entwining with the lives of those researching it: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”