There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontolo….

If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about….

The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied possession of Euclidean geomet….

Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, th….

No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the ….

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one..

At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of a cosmic eye, a unive….

More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an ef….

Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy a….

Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excus….

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found.".

Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism….

No man is obliged to be what he might have been..

An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the the….

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all..

Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from lab….

The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which h….

Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is hardly surpri….

For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitutio….

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote..

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places ….