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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for March 2019:

Classic:
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
— Konrad Lorenz, Das Sogennante Böse, 1963.

Direct:
To be a social scientist is to work at learning, preserving, revising, formulating, and communicating general ideas that square with some observable, distinctly human reality.
— Basic Principles for Social Science in Our Time, 1987.

Garden moment for March 2019:

Fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus) is one of the earliest and loveliest of spring-flowering trees. Native to southeastern United States, it grows well also in Southern Ontario.

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