In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

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.

Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?

...do you ever know a moment is important as it's happening, or is it only when you look back that you can see your life is changed?

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

Japan is the perfect example of make plans, and watch God laugh.

There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.

The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.

Everyone just needs to stop fighting and have a cookie.

Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.