I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

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.

One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is "out there" in the same way that a movie camera would.

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

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.