Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.

Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.

You can like an immoral character because she’s interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.

I try not to take things lying down, especially rectal thermometers

My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war)

Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.

There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then you, thank god, disappear again.