Far from behaving (or should one say behavioring?) with the regular
intelligibility of a clock, the bent of the living and of man in particular
is to MISbehave, in all senses of the word--from developing allergies,
which make poison out of delicacies, to committing crimes which, as in
saints and statesman, can later seem the highest wisdom. It is even proved
by research that man must have his ration of dreaming, that is, of
irregular and inaccurate thinking. These facts of experience require that
any science of the regularities of behavior be always qualified and
admonished by another discipline, a learned lore of misbehavior.
-- Jacques Barzun, from "Science: The Glorious Entertainment", 1964
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