The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us.

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.

At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.

Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.

Ignorance is one of the best defense available. Distraction is a remedy.

What's the difference between hot and cold cereal? Why can't all cereals get along?

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.

Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

I'd rather have none at all than a grain too much.

Over prepare, then go with the flow.

From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so there arises the ownership of things as well as of persons.

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.