“I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me”

Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.

A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.

Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.

Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,

Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.

Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.

It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

Love without evidence is stalking.

It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.

The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.

If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.

Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?

Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

I didn’t care to practise as much. That is my only regret.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.