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

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.

The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.

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

I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

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