Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

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.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Set a goal to achieve something that's so big so exhilarating that excites you & scares you at the same time.

I'm fighting for the right to get married. For other people.

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.