A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.

Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

I want my life to be about LIVING, not leaving --which is why I'm LEAVING nothing behind.

You are not a better or wiser person simply because you’ve ceased to care.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.