These days you don’t hear many people say, “The devil made me do it.” More likely they’ll blame their amygdala. — here

The first true blue rose can only happen once, but there will always be a next great smart phone, or laptop, or tablet, or whatever. — there

Today, more than ever before, we need politicians who are educated about science and technology. At the very least our economic future depends on science! Yet we have people on the Science Committee who are devoted to actively destroying it. — here

The title of the painting, like, say, the title “Symphony No. 5″, neither contributes nor detracts from the transference of meaning. It merely gives an ordinal position in a series of presumably similar works. — there