Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like 'bizarre' or 'incredible'. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not 'weird'. You are weird.

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe - a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment.