The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

Words are memes that can be pronounced.

In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.

Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections.

The simple truth is that every human being should be born with basic human rights without suffering from discrimination.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

Our heads have a nasty habit of ruining what can make us happiest. And there are times in our lives when you have to put aside what we think is best and do with what you feel is best.

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

I hate that stuff. It tastes like feet." At that he smiled. "How would you know what feet taste like?" "I just know.

If you get invited to be part of a team, don't look at it as a burden to get out of, but rather an opportunity to inspire, invigorate, and bring life to the team.

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too