The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.

The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere.