I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.

A man by himself is in bad company.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

The nice thing about Toronto is there's not a competition.

The process of quitting smoking doesn't end with the last cigarette. It's not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

Every girl wants to play Bridget Jones.

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.