Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

Friendships are nice. So is competence.

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.