Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

Pretend you are foolish to the foolish, and be yourself when you are alone or with others like you, because if you take the foolish seriously as your friend, you might be a fool yourself.

I beg your pardon I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man.

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

If you just think about the difficulty you'll never get anywhere.

and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.

Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

I don't really understand why when I'm not making music, I feel like I can't breathe.