The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.