Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?