In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which did not allow anyone to be a mere observer.

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.

In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the past isn't a location, you can't travel to it.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!