You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.

I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem is the limited capacity of the human mind to grasp the relative magnitudes of large numbers. Counting at the rate of one number per second...to count to a trillion takes 32,000 years, which is as much time as has elapsed since people first drew on cave walls.

Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.