Like, for instance, standing in the kitchen wondering what you went in there for. Everybody does it, but because there isn’t—or wasn’t—a word for it, everyone thinks it’s something that only they do a...
It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe...
It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to it...
It is most gratifying, it said, that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a sp...
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.
Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression it turns out to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected sta...
In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the s...
If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.
I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.
I commend you on your skepticism, but even the skeptical mind must be prepared to accept the unacceptable when there is no alternative. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at leas...
Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.
He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think o...
He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a...
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called t...
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
Good evening, it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body? It harrumphed and gurgled a bit, wriggled its hind quarters into a m...
Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.
Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.