Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted - only if it can be reproduced by others, and thereby independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method has produced enormously powerful results for 400 years. The scientific method is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It’s verifiable whether you know the experimenter, or whether you don’t.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.

We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.

Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.