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

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.

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.

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders!

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

It is imperative that we recognize that whatever has happened to us has happened to others. They have coped and so must we. We are not alone. Heavenly Father's help is near.