I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same….

The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of today’s and the confidence in to….

I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence..

Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption..

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe..

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly..

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong..

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well..

Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous univers….

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days..

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall….

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do..

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be..

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking….

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death..

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding i….

One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better..

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right..

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'.

If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist..

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once..