A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.

the mind is a neural computer

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.

A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull is our cave, and mental representations are the shadows.

The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.

We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt..., " but "If ... then ... else.

Life is abundance grace.

What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.

Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.

I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.