How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.

What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.

Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

Clumsy jesting is no joke.

* What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out.

I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living.

It had to go in, but it didn't.

Worry is the warning light that shows I’ve stopped looking to God to meet my needs.

Making the effort is quite a pleasure in itself.