Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.

It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.

Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.