It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Never exchange the word of God for any wealth.

When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.

Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

Somewhere in the fear and chaos, there is a clarity that few will ever experience.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.