The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

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.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

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

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

Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

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