They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

There is no better high than discovery.

People would rather believe than know.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children

The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

We're all so afraid of what everyone around us thinks that we risk ourselves to desperation. It's utterly stupid. It's utterly frightening. But it's utterly human.

Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.

The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.

See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.