Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever.

Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.

Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!