All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.

I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini.

Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

Why should I be worried about death?

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

If the ravens leave the Tower, Britain will fall.

Knowledge becomes power when you share it.

I can’t sleep alone anymoreand I get used tocompanytoo quickly. You’re always gone too soon.

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.