When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn't start dating until I was 18.

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

They's making it worse, the labor movement got the mafia curse.

If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.

I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.

I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.

We will slaughter them; Bush Junior, and his international gang of bastards!

Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.