It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

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

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.