Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.

Not all bits have equal value.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.