The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well. . . uh. . . actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear.
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.
Never let shyness conquer your mind.
I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.