Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.

I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.