The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.

Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.

Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

When you come to God, the devil will remind you about the pleasures of sin

Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.

My aloneness had never bothered me

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

Don't live life as a spectator.

I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!

...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.