Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn kn whr th vwls r)

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

If you devote three to six hours of your time every day to practicing anything repeatedly, in the next five years, you will become one of the best in the world.

Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g.

He's now letting Chang play his own game - and he does that better than anyone.

I have never even had a sip of alcohol, never have done drugs. The hardest thing I have ever done would be Pepsi.

A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.

You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.

Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it.

The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.

Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

The gates made of light swing open. You see in.