Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story (say, a man with a beard on a cloud) is true or not true. But with Possibilianism I’m hoping to define a new position - one that emphasizes the exploration of new, unconsidered possibilities. Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind; it is not interested in committing to any particular story.

The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.