The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.

Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.

If we weren’t already doing it this way, is this the way we would start?

Why are some things harder to lose than others? because of love, of course. The more you love something the harder it is to lose.

Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder.

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?

Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.