I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.

If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

Each of us has his own inner concentration camp... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings, as we are and what we will become.

If you want me, you'll have to earn me. And, mister, I don't come cheap.

...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

Pet stores just sell their animals.

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?