At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.