Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more interesting discussion. If history is any guide, it's never a good idea to assume that a scientific problem is cornered.