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.

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.

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

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.

I’ve lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material.

We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?

Mackenzie glanced through the glass doors. It was dark outside, except for the dim light from the front entrance. A night breeze swooshed leaves throughout the parking lot.

I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.

Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you're over here like this? Calvin:...I don't think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Cooperation is the redeeming ability of man to be better than himself.

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.