If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.

It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.

Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.

In these unfiltered, un-moderated social media posts people are speculating about others' motivations. And you could no more put that in a peer review for a journal than you could fly.

I publish things that in my judgment are good science.

We're staying together, " he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.

Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words.

Where science is a dignified waltz in three-quarter time, magic is an improvised saxophone solo: all gut checks and synchronicities.

…If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero, ' said Lalu.- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters.

If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.