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

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.

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.

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

There is no present or future only the past happening over and over again now.

A Man consumes the Time you make him Wait In thinking of your Faults-so don't be late!

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand.

If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't really have that kind of off-switch.

If I could say something to everyone on this planet, I'd tell them to follow their dreams.

If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.