I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

Depression is sadness gone wrong

There is zero evidence for god.

Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology.

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

There are just three things that you can do with Money: save, give, or invest. Somehow in here in America, with all our creativity, we have invented a fourth use for money: we can squander it

You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what they're like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

None of us can choose the manner of our passing.

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.

I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.

So it was a whole experience revolving around "The Evolution of Dance," but wasn't just a company that put an ad on the video.

Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.