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

Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.

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.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.