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Science is an art not a science.

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What is the font size of reality?

What do we need?

What do we need? Storms of new hypotheses, weak odds, mighty barriers, vast distances, grand and distant rendezvous with ourselves.

Fate

Our fateful day has arrived (even though we do not believe in fate).

Anatomy

How fortunate is the human animal that his anatomy permits him to gaze up at other planets - it is his only redeeming feature!

Pertaining to the Universe

All we can say is that the Universe will continue to get as complex as it can.

The Limits of Greatness

...and even if one day we were to have a truly great thought we would in all likelihood fail to recognise it as such.

Job Description

The job of the philosopher is to become unemployed.

Poetry

The bird sang like a bird singing.

Change

Every philosophy, like every species, will become extinct.

Fashion victims

Civilisation is but a passing fad.

The Destination

Truth is a place you never arrive at; it is always the station beyond the one you got off at.

On the Futility of Metaphysics

To give up on an impossible victory is itself a sort of victory.

Evolution

Every animal is busy turning into something else entirely.

The drawback of a mind

Thinking animals do not always live as well as unthinking ones - our brains sometimes get in the way of life.

The great misunderstanding

We wait for Optimism as it waits for us...

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The unessential man is greater than the essential man.

Aesthetics

Everything beautiful is dangerous - because it is beautiful. 

Necessity

When there is nowhere left to explore the explorer must be done away with.

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A religion is a philosophy that thinks it has come to an end.

Asking directions

It's impossible to ever be lost in one's own galaxy.

Change

Everything changes especially that which persists.