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

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.

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.

Nothing else in this world can renew our minds like the Bible.

Spiritual awakening is not really spiritual at all.

All mothers are slightly insane.

When I sound real, I'm fake, and when I sound fake, I'm real.

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

Zero, zero belief in myself. And it's changed somewhat, but there's still a lot of that in me.

Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.

I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

Beating a legend is a very good feeling, but internally I was processing the realization that I could compete with anyone.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.