If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

I elbow my way through the mass of people to get to my locker because there's something immensely satisfying about the toughest part of my arm connecting with the softest part of everyone else.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

The only way I'm interested in having a baby is the old-fashioned way.

The way our brain is wired, we only see what we believe is possible. We match patterns that already exist within ourselves through conditioning.

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

We all think we're going to get out of debt.

I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.