Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

Happiness. It comes onunexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

Science is just as important as magic.

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

God seems to have the receiver off the hook.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

A great magazine is sort of a net for ability.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.