When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

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.

Be thankful that you have clothes to wear, food to eat and a place to sleep.

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

Self-pity shortens your life.

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?