The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.

Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

What grace I have is enough.

If you have a dream, it's definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.

I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise.

My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.

There is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care.

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.