So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

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.

After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.

Hardships scorch as sun burns each entity to glow it golden.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.

To create the life you deserve, you have to go after it. The universe that you inhabit flows from you - you don't flow from it.

The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

My signature is the one that Hyun Joong hyung made for me five years ago, but I’m still using it.

If you're looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that.