Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

The Quran says nothing about the veil, except for an injunction to veil the bosom, which is obvious. As for the face, Muhammad's wife Khadijeh never wore the veil, nor did the other wives of the Prophet after Khadijeh died. [...] The ulema have twisted the Quran with their hadith, always twisting it toward those in power, until the message Muhammad laid out so clearly, straight from God, has been reversed, and good Muslim women are made like slaves again, or worse.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.