Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.