Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.

If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament to how her grandmother made love to hurricane and calmed the storm.

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.

If you have a pulse, you're going to have pain.

You need to have the courage to fail.

If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world.

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?