In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

To get people to compromise, you have to give them stuff.

Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.

Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.

We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.

For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.