Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differen….

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea..

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really won….

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory..

In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fea….

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism..

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails..

I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no go….

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in….

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?.

I write with teenagers in mind..

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect..

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed..

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. Its very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God a….

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it..

This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and ….

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smi….

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them..

In this environment it was a simple matter for The Republic to maintain its structure. People did as they were told because they were working togethe….

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host..

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself..