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It's an illusion to believe that you can be happy when no one else is. Or that other people will not be affected by your unhappiness.

Some places in the world, such as Ramsar, Iran, have a tenfold higher background radiation,

it is difficult to discern where "you" end and the remainder of the world begins.

After all, there have never been loonies carrying signs saying, "The End is Not Near.

Plus, where would the universe retire to? Florida isn't big enough.

Bad behavior is seen as something to be noticed, reported on, and analyzed, whereas people who do not lie and cheat are taken for granted.

Creativity is a fragile flower, but perhaps it can be fertilized with systematic doses of serendipity.

They fight against popular creationism, but at the same time they fight fanatically for their own creationism," he

Twice as many people in India have access to cell phones as to latrines.

Happy brains are all alike; every unhappy brain is unhappy in its own way.

Every aspect of life is an experiment that can be better understood if it is perceived in that way.

We can speak, think, refer to ourselves as agents, and so build up the false idea of a persisting self that has consciousness and free will.

We'd be unfeeling, unconscious zombies if we did.

I believe that consciousness is, essentially, the way information feels when being processed.

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

A system that makes no errors is not intelligent.

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.

Economics graduate students are far more likely to free-ride than other students.

Computers are fine, but it's time to return to the mind itself and stop pretending we have computers for brains.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

That's the way of all good explanations. The better they are, the more questions they raise.

Filters fail when they know us too well and when they don't know us well enough.

The universe has been around for 13.8 billion years and

I can answer the question, but am I bright enough to ask it?

Is likely to survive for another 100 billion years or more.