Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.

You are all stardust.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?