Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos's ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy. Another insight I really want people to consider is this: everyone has gotten this far. Everyone you meet has made it this far. Nobody is superior to anyone else from an evolutionary standpoint.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.