Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.
In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.
The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.
My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.
I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.
My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.
The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.
Neal Daniels: Turn off the tape recorder.
Lara: I heard a bang. Daniel: What, like a truck bang? Lara: Like a gun.
Daniel: You've seen the films, kiddo. It ain't over 'til it's over.
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.
To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves.
If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
In short, Daniel was once again a member of a family. Viewed from without they were a strange enough family: a rattling, hunchbacked old woman, a spoiled senile cocker spaniel, and a eunuch with a punctured career (for though Rey didn’t live with t...
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
