Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because 'experimental method' used to be just another name for scientific method.... I hope [to] initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own.

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

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

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

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

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

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.