There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

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

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

Children have always liked the princess story, but they never knew what was her name. I think the princess was, is and will always be you.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young...

Rules, laws and codes become obsolete among the self-governed.

I'd like to say I took the news well.The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time.--Percy Jackson

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

Sandworms...you know I hate 'em!

Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag

Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will

There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.