Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.

Science is public, not private, knowledge.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you happy or miserable

Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don't sleep. I've got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business.

I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.

There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

It's fun to be blond, and it's almost difficult to remember how I used to look with my proper hair color.