Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn’t explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out.

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

There is zero evidence for god.

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

Depression is sadness gone wrong.

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

إن الأسباب الحقيقية للإنتحار تكمن في الأمراض العقلية، أما صعوبات الحياة فلا تعدو كونها محفزات تدفع الشخص إلى القيام بالفعل، وقد يخترع المنتحرون صعوبات غير موجودة ص 136

وجدت بعض الدراسات الأنثروبولوجية أن بعض الأشخاص يُقدمون على الإنتحار دون أن تظهر عليهم أعراض المرض العقلي، لكنهم يعانون من ضغوطات اجتماعية كبيرة لا يجدون سبيلاً للتخلص منها إلا بالإنتحار ص 137