'What' you think rarely matters. It is 'HOW' you think that matters more.

Carlo Rovelli's talk on the Nature of Science at the British Library.

What distinguishes an intellectual from someone who is not?

An intellectual pays more attention to ‘how’ they think than ‘what’ they think about things. When someone tells them that the earth circles the sun, instead of accepting the statement blindly, an intellectual asks ‘How do we know that?’

An intellectual gets excited when they find flaws in their …