If none of your other beliefs depend on evolution being true, you might as well be a creationist.
Jun 192017
Thinking
Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
—Whitehead
Jun 152017
We have learned to ignore philosophers when they talk about science but remain in thrall to scientists when they talk about philosophy.
Jun 122017
We fret too much over the contradictions among our beliefs, in the unlikely event that we notice them at all.
Jun 082017
No one would pay an anecdote any mind if its plural were data.
May 192017
God paradoxes are only infinity paradoxes in clerical garb.
May 092017
The fugitive thought, ungrasped, will return, unimproved.
May 052017
Is it the imminent destruction of the world you mourn, or the accomplished destruction of how you thought about it?
Apr 102017
A suppressed idea mutates to ever more virulent forms, which are then invoked to justify its continued suppression.
Apr 052017
By the time you know all the answers you no longer believe them.
Apr 032017
Believing that nothing is true permits you to believe that anything is possible.