I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

At time of peace, we should love one another.At war, we should set our minds as the hunters.

I've learned to appreciate what I've got. I'm not going to waste an ounce of energy on sorting through the past or with worrying about the future. Life's too short for that.

Knowing that something is wrong without actively trying to fix it is worse than ignorant neutrality.

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

I just can't conceive of how a person could hate another because of skin color. I love every race on the planet earth.

Love doesn't need to be understood, it needs to be demonstrated

Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.