Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

This sort of dwindling band of true believers each year gets together and talks about the wonderful progress that's been made. None of the rest of us can ever see that.

We must make tough decisions to see if it’s worth it in the end.

we are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]

Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back.

We disjoint the mind like the body.

We don't need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes.