I never ponder counterfactuals.

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.

I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners

Be control of your mind.

The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.

When people clap for me I say, don't clap for me, clap for what God has done.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.