It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

I'd love to be abducted. I'd sit on my deck at home waiting all night long to be abducted. But that's never happened that I know of.

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.