Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

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

Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.

Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results

One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.