Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.
If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.
Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.
Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.
The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.
