Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.

I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive.

On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

Everybody agrees that a future in which you are dead is a very bad thing, and that it isn't made any better by your not being around to notice how bad it is.

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

That's one problem I have. Jews when they get successful they will help their people and some of the African-Americans - maybe I'll get in trouble again - they don't want to help anybody.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

Technology provides means for expression and interchange and so on, so yes it should be free and open, but there are a lot of constraints on how its used.

I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.