The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

the mind is a neural computer

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.

A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull is our cave, and mental representations are the shadows.

The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.

We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.

A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt..., " but "If ... then ... else.

But the walls of my resolvemortared with stubbornnesshave been breached by circumstancesI cannot handle alone.

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!

I was just about to ask you the same thing. I know you followed me. Don't look so suprised. It's called a rearview mirror. Are you stalking me for a specific reason?

Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.

The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.