If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there!

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

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.