The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

Either get busy living your life or life will leave you behind.

People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.

I enjoy yoga a lot, not even for the workout.

Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?