Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared)

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

Success attracts success to build strong partnerships for more successful ventures whilst failure attracts failure to have more pity parties.

Woman is in love with the devil.

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

I've actually always wanted to play the character a bit 'off'. I think that could be fun.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.

The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.