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. …

- David Brin

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

- David Brin

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

- David Brin

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

- David Brin

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…

- David Brin

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

- David Brin

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

- David Brin

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

- David Brin

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

- David Brin