Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

What's the name of the birth defect you have, trampled by a horse during the 2nd trimester?

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.