1. “What you can imagine depends on what you know.”
2. “There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.”
3. “There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.”
4. “Ignorance is a necessary conditions for many excellent things.”
5. “In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.”
6. “The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.”
7. “Words are memes that can be pronounced.”
8. “One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.”
9. “Any theory that makes progress is bound to be initially counterintuitive.”
10. “Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.”
11. No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available”.”
12. “The mind is the effect, not the cause.”
13. “Words have genealogy and it’s easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.”
14. “Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.”
15. “The secret of happiness is : Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.”
