I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. A theory appears to be beautiful or elegant (or simple, if you prefer) when it can be expressed concisely in terms of mathematics we already have. Symmetry exhibits the simplicity. The Foundamental Law is such that the different skins of the onion resemble one another and therefore the math for one skin allows you to express beautifully and simply the phenomenon of the next skin.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.