In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.

Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.