The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.