I went through the ’70s and ’80s saying, I’m a heterosexual bisexual lesbian, and whenever I said that, no one asked me another thing.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

To the extent that the United States has, I don’t like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don’t think that’s based on to any significant degree on the fact...

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can’t do better than including everything in the universe that’s potentially available.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

Never touch your clitoris dry, never. I can’t emphasize enough lubrication.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest – the added sugars and fats in processed foods.

Today we have so much more flow of private capital that most international imbalances are financed that way, by private capital movements.

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do...

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

Fair market value, by definition, is the price at which a willing seller will sell and a willing buyer will buy.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture – academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a...

Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

I’ve spent the past six years with a young man, which was a nice break, dipping back into heterosexuality again from all my time with women.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

On private transactions, I’ll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That’s the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.

At some point, Moore’s law will break down.

Merely by existing and evolving in time – by existing – any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.

In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show.

There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Rather, the point is to recognize the tightness between seeing and thinking on an intellectual level not just a metaphorical level.

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here’s one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds – particularly if it sounds bad – recognize the pattern of defamation.

I mean, we’re really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

What’s happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings...

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

If we all talked honestly about what’s really happening in our sex lives, we’d realise that we’re all normal because it’s going to be about diversity.

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the...