[Charles] Darwin wrote in his autobiography of a habit he called a “golden rule”: to immediately write down any observation that seemed inconsistent with his theories—”for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favorable ones.”
[Charles] Darwin wrote in his autobiography of a habit he called a “golden rule”: to immediately write down any observation that seemed inconsistent with his theories—”for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favorable ones.”
-Robert Wright, The Moral Animal, p.280
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