It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.

If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

listen carefully, as this may be something of a shock to you." "A shock? You mean all that was just the precursor?

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

I am an unstoppable killing machine. I am the greatest champion that ever walked the face of this planet.

I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness.

Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

"Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."

When you'd buy vinyl, you'd have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you'd read the lyrics and usually there was something artistic that went with it.

New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels.