But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.