Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.

A healthy community is never a product of circumstances. It is rather a fruit of oneness in heart in the spirit of true neighbourhood.

Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.

I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me.

I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.

Life is going forth; death is returning home.

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.