Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

I think hard work is what gets most people to the top.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free.

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

Basically morphic fields are fields of habit and theyve been set up through habits of thought through habits of activity and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

I had a director who told me a story about a fan who had commented on how nice it was to see her sister laughing and how happy the show made her. I like to make people happy and make them laugh.

If you tweet for me, I'll tweet for you.

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.

I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed

I think the self is complicated, that at various times we are all various people, and wrestling actually does a lot with that. You have things like heel turns where a person goes from being a good guy to a bad guy.

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.

No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.