I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong.

To let the gospel of Jesus shape how we work means to heed the influence of both the psychological idols within our hearts as well as the sociological idols in our culture and profession.

A resource-poor country like Japan can only rely on people's endeavor and knowledge. I would like to continue my effort to provide help to younger people.

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

Feel the feeling as though the prayer has already been answered, and in that feeling we are speaking to the Forces of Creation, allowing the world to respond to us.

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

I believe most Americans want their next President to remind them of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off.

The part of you that is real, that is authentic, was never born and never dies. IT IS INFINITE. See yourself as an infinite being.