"A map is not the territory it represents,
but if correct,
it has a similar structure to the territory,
which accounts for its usefulness."

-- Alfred Korzybski

"The non-theoretical character of metaphysics would not be in itself a defect; all arts have this non-theoretical character without thereby losing their high value for personal as well as for social life. The danger lies in the deceptive character of metaphysics; it gives the illusion of knowledge without actually giving any knowledge. This is the reason why we reject it."

-- Thomas Kuhn

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."

-- Soren Kierkegaard

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion"

-- Edward Abby

"The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable."

-- Julian Baggini

"In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous."

-- Robert Winston

"It is imperative in science to doubt; it is absolutely necessary, for progress in science, to have uncertainty as a fundamental part of your inner nature. To make progress in understanding, we must remain modest and allow that we do not know. Nothing is certain or proved beyond all doubt. "

-- Bertrand Russell

"The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude."

-- Peter L. Berger

"In the strict formulation of the law of causality - if we know the present, we can calculate the future - it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise."

-- Werner Heisenberg

"Looking deeper, we could say that the real cause of suffering is not being able to tolerate uncertainty -- and thinking that it's perfectly sane, perfectly normal, to deny the fundamental groundlessness of being human."

-- Pema Chodron

"If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heaven of Hell, or a Hell of Heaven."

-- John Milton

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts. If one speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows one, like a shadow that never leaves. "

-- Siddhartha Gautama

"Prudence versus passion is a conflict that runs through history. It is not a conflict in which we should side wholly with either party."

-- Bertrand Russell

"To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts."

-- Alain de Botton

"Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."

-- Epictetus

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

-- Bertrand Russell

"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."

-- Samuel Butler

"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."

-- Bertrand Russell

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination."

-- Carl Rogers

"Nature requires us not only to be able to work well but also to idle well."

-- Aristotle

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

-- Albert Einstein

"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."

-- Abraham Maslow

"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all."

-- Richard P. Feynman

Curriculum Vitae

Patents, Publications

Examples of My Work

Early Years

Telemetric Pacemaker

Holographic fabrication of crystallographically aligned sub-micron gratings in GaAs

Seeing Eye Mouse

T'ai Chi

T'ai Chi Notes

Amateur Radio

Radio Station W2LS