Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

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 would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

Walking in shoes bigger than your feet, will inspire gravity to pull you down." Let's be grateful for what fits us...for what we have.

It is only the dead who do not return.

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

What you resist, persists

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.