“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.”

“We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don’t.”

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”

“It is in everyone’s best interest to realize and remember that the default human way is to believe first and ask questions never. We become better thinkers by recognizing how poor we are at thinking.”

“Leo Ryan's life and his deeds are about a life that was so much more than Guyana. He was relentless in his search for answers, answers that were not readily available by just asking questions…We remember him today because his story is so much like those of most Americans; we want to believe the best and we sometimes hear the worst.”

“But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.”

“We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes.”

“Of all the questions we can ask ourselves the most important is: how is one best to live?”

“We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.”

“Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.”