The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
- Edward de Bono
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Change.org/ideas (not the official Change.gov) is a place where people can post ideas for the Obama administration and readers can, Digg-like, vote the ideas up and down.
Evolution news and views on me
Over the last couple of months, I've written periodically about cancer research and the complaints that the present system of funding grants and of peer review stifles innovation, as well as whether ideas for which there is some evidence but which fall out of the mainstream are given a fair shake
Eugene Wallingford talks about a great idea for a conference session:
Just excellent. I wonder why people still don't give enough credit to Science and Rationality even at this age. We are not given room to do mistake in our persuit of resolving mystery.