Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

If you desire to be productive with your time, you should select a maximum of two things that are your highest priority, and plan time to work on them.

What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?”“Oh no, Ron, ” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!

It just sucks when you’ve given so much and you realize it still wasn't good enough for someone.

One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Whatever I feel, I say frankly.