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

I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.