You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

There's a hard life for every silver spoon.There's a touch of gray for every shade of blue.That's the way I see life.If there was nothing wrong...Then there'd be nothing right.

Being a slave to a fellow human being, many times, starts with giving his opinion more weight than you should.

The life of men is painful.

News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

Being a down-to-earth type of individual, I feel like I can connect with people on a different level, versus the GOD-like pedestal that people tend to put us on.

A successful business is either loved or needed.

The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.