"Actually I've never seen a cycle-maintenance problem complex enough really to require full-scale formal scientific method. Repair problems are not tha...












Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.

More Robert M. Pirsig quotes
"To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it’s just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to app...
"If you can’t define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can you really tell anyone else what it is. There is,...
"Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycle. They think it's some kind of "knack" or some ki...
"I don’t know why—it’s just that—I don’t know—they’re not kin."—Surprising word, I think to myself never used it before. Not of kin—sounds like hillbil...
"Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and ...
"The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know. There's n...