It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

God loves 'stuff

And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out.

The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.