To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

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

If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.

She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a regular thing. She didn't have any close friends, didn't go out on dates, didn't even go to the movies by herself. She had sacrificed a normal life in order to get a PhD, and become a scientist.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

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.

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