Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

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'.

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

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.

To invest your life, you must invest your time and make sure it doesn’t just melt away like Salvador Dali’s melting clock.

A storm is an artist who passes by on her way to paint your rainbow.

A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.

Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.

One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."

When we are aligned, everything can flow, and life and yoga becomes effortless.

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.

Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!