Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes..

There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you….

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly….

Global warmers predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in the whole thi….

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions ….

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year..

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it..

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion..

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen..

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world..

There are a lot of people for whom psychedelics have been really beneficial. But I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. Some are just not ready but s….

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet….

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket..

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war t….

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us..

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that ….

Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air..

And all I knew about drugs was what I read in magazines like Time and Life. I learned that marijuana was a dangerous addictive drug and that I should….

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess..

I'm not politically correct..

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire..