Steven Novella Quotes

#1. There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

Steven Novella

#2. I don't know what the hell is going on with me and this girl, but every single time I'm around her, it's like I lose my shit.

Melyssa Winchester

#3. The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.

Steven Novella

#4. Ultimately, Lloyd Alexander's tales of Prydain were enough to make me come back and visit again and again, and each time, I laughed and I wept. Each time. No exceptions.

James A. Moore

#5. Life is mean! Don't lose your humour jacket. You'll really need it.

Nike Thaddeus

#6. To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you are unloved and unwanted, look into your own hearts and minds. If there is something wrong, turn about. Put a smile on your faces. Make yourselves more attractive. Brighten your outlook.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#7. I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

Clint Eastwood

#8. What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination.

Stephen Helmes

#9. Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.

Steven Novella

#10. It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content ... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble, and from babble to confusion.

Rene Daumal

#11. My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.

Jenna Blum

#12. All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.

Jeff Greenwald

#13. I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!

Malin Akerman

#14. History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

Steven Novella

#15. Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.

Steven Novella

#16. I've lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans - it's so unique and so European. There's nothing else like it in the country. It has its own music, its own food, its own style and its own way of life.

Bryan Batt

#17. After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.

Matthew Ashford

#18. To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.

E. Stanley Jones

#19. Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.

George Herbert

#20. I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

Bryan Adams

#21. Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.

Steven Novella

#22. Ignorance is a low-energy state. It takes constant vigilance and work to climb out of it.

Steven Novella