Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

I is who I is.

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they’re not written by people who are worried about the guys on the ground getting shot.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Medicine for the dead is too late

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.