Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed..

Science has learned recently that contempt and indignation are addictive mental states. I mean physically and chemically addictive. Literally! People….

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior..

If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask ….

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else..

In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of ….

Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. ….

For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments t….

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the rich….

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power..

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the ….

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego..

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors w….

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against se….

The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonabl….

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand ….

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than ….

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's….

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning..

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next..