I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.

We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.