Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.