Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.

To shine is better than to reflect.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

We shouldn't live in a world where we live in constant terror. We need less dying and more living. We need less destroying and more building. We need less hate and more love.

If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

You always become the thing you fight the most.

Love, when released into the world, is like an intelligent energy that continues on and on, shaping the world in its own image.

I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.