Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.