We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.

There are no coincidences. And everything means something.

Let nature be in your yard.

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris and DEC didn't stop using VMS.

I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.