If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

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

- With respect, Professor McGonagall, I'm not quite sure you understand what I'm trying to do here. - With respect, Mr. Potter, I'm quite sure I don't. Unless - this is a guess, mind - you're trying to take over the world? - No! I mean yes - well, NO! - I think i should perhaps be alarmed that you have trouble answering the question.

If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

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