In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what WE call mathematics. Likewise, I think, for the sciences.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.