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

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.

Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.