“An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.”

“Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.”

“Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another.”

“Nature answers only when she is questioned.”

“Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.”

“...the question as to the nature of force will not have been answered; but our minds, no longer vexed, will cease to ask illegitimate questions.”