Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
Imagination is cheap as long as you don’t have to worry about the details.
Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
You don’t get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
That’s a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.
People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections.
If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.