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.

the mind is a neural computer

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.

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

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

A man never grows out of wanting and desiring money that follows him through life.

Because all her feelings for him – hot and beautiful in her heart – turned to gobbledygook in her mouth.

Traveling is as subtle as an early morning reverence.

Because of their sacred gift of translating and embodying energy, empaths are able to spot their soul mates or twin flames a mile away.

One of the greatest challenges a man can ever phase in life is the denial and inability to try new things beyond what he already know”.

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time but a filling of time with God.

When I was six all I could think about was ding-dongs and yo-yos.

Coming off the last turn, my thoughts changed from 'One more try...one more try...one more try...' to 'I can win! I can win! I can win!

Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.

We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.