How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose th….

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way ar….

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing bu….

Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end..

The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance ….

But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of….

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing….

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning..

Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in ….

Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.” -I did nothing for you.” -You loved me and your love made me--h….

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest..

Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object..

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anyth….

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid ….

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life..

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult..

To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Ni….

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child..

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you..

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourse….

Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, tha….