But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

The naval station’s location means the military can base more personnel there and devote more resources to training and supervision.

It’s also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy...

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who’s going to do what and how we’re going to achieve the generic goals on the list.

Now that it’s officially summer, here’s my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel – it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

The dollar performs internationally all three functions of money, as a medium of exchange, a unit of account and a standard of value.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

If you are using your childhood masturbation technique, you are not developing sexually. We, of course, develop and become more varied.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

Of course, not everybody’s willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, – if the experiments don’t work, then it means it’s...

I’ve left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

The clitoris is the female sex organ, and the fact that we aren’t told that when we were small children is devastating. We grow up with no information about the pleasure center of our body.

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound – indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in...

But we shouldn’t be surprised when bad things happen, and we shouldn’t think of the United States as a holy land suddenly blemished.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

This means that the U.S. can pursue different interrogation policies in each location. In fact, Abu Ghraib highlights the benefits of Guantanamo.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

The universe is an intelligence test.

There are a lot of people who know me who can’t understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature’s laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is...

On sensitive issues, talk isn’t cheap – it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

In corn, I think I’ve found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald’s meal, virtually all the carbon in it – and what we eat is...

The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that – from ’80 to ’85.

Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it’s complex.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to...

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

The idea of trying to create things that last – forever knowledge – has guided my work for a long time now.

We are far from the end of our war against terrorism – most of which these days is Muslim in origin – but we may be at the end of the beginning.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.

People are becoming more and more interested in science, and that’s because they realize that science impacts their daily lives in important ways.

Think for yourself and question authority.

The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I’m a feminist and I think I’ve done a lot...

That is to say, nature’s laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children...

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.