We should be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brain falls out.

Reason has built the modern world. It is a precious but also a fragile thing, which can be corroded by apparently harmless irrationality. We must favor verifia…

But it is we that choose to divide animals up into discontinuous species. On the evolutionary view of life there must have been intermediates, even though, con…

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

The phrase 'we (I) (you) simply must -' designates some thing that need not be done. 'That goes without saying' is a red warning. 'Of course' means you had bes…

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us…