In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.

Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.

I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person.

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.