Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".
Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.
Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.
Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.
The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.
To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.
Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
