Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

One soul, the Saviour, changes the course of history.

Mechanics of Mind: Remember the nature of the mind - Mind is never where you are, it is always somewhere else!

Never fall in love with anything life throws at you. You have what it takes to colour your environment with the right decisions at the right time!

The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?

I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

Remember this-I'm going to bring a championship to Miami. I promise.

The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs.