Peter Schreiner German Scientist on philosophy, discovery and Justus Liebig

“So the Overton window is the window of acceptable thought in a given society. At the center you might have policy, what we all go along with, but as you move further out, you have things that are sensible and then acceptable. And then outside of that, they're not acceptable, so they're really either a radical idea or they're unthinkable. But when times of chaos and change, those Overton windows open up because the old rules, the old tribes we followed, all the things that we were involved with, they don't necessarily apply.”

“One of the functions of those things that people don't realize is you're exposed to people that it's more than a zero sum game. It's not your Facebook where it's like, I'm gonna obliterate you and you're gonna try and obliterate me. You have to see these people at your kids' soccer game the next week, or you have to see them at church. So you're more open to the idea of like, yeah, they think something different than me, I'm gonna let them talk. And some of those ideas end up seeping in and hitting you.”

“I now am coming to the conclusion that I think I personally need to join more community organizations or try and start them, because I think that may be the only path back so that we don't end up hating each other or oversimplifying everyone else's arguments.”