If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat..

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass..

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move..

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making..

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else..

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclinati….

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New Y….

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles a….

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getti….

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by..

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss..

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood..

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be..

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change..

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others..

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots.

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed a….

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that..

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all..

Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever..

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools..