Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.

A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler was good to dogs and children isn't a paradox.

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

Truth will keep on telling the truthLies will lie to be more uncouthNo more rainbow after the stormNowhere to escape leaving the norm

The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him.

Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on.

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

What.” Oh, for God’s sake. “Fine. Why wouldn’t it ever work out?” “Because I was, and I remain, utterly and completely and totally… in love with you.” Qhuinn’s mouth dropped open.

I know the heart of life is good.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

I like my voice, but I can't deliver as much as I wish I could.