If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

if the important thing is not to win but to complete then was not punctual invented.

Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you

Connecting expands possibilities - in work and in life - for ourselves as well as for others.

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson