I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

On the sound of handcuffs--"For me it's the sound of all light and hope crashing down on a minority.

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

Nothing in the Christian life is more important than forgiveness-our forgiveness of others and God's forgiveness of us.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

I guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.