I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

If ever there was something she needed to stick around and fight for, Luc was that something.

Now it was just the two of us, Max and me. And about a thousand other people around us.

A word of encouragement goes a long way.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.