If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.

Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of allHim whom to love is to obey, and keepHis great command!

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

God is a questioner; Man is a philosopher.

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.