In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

Words are memes that can be pronounced.

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.

Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections.

Some people think that it’s okay to be downright nasty to people they love. It is not okay. Nasty is never called for, and it’s certainly not sweet, useful, nor positive.

... because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with them.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the copy.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

People have always wondered what my opinion on Stevie Wonder is. I say if he's so great how come he can't see? I mean, God doesn't make mistakes, just look at me for example.