It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

The only book Knight didn't steal was the one he most often saw. 'I had no need for a Bible, ' he said.

Rich or poor, living in a trusting society simply makes people happier.

The problem with most people! Is that you're not obsessed with improvement.

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

I cannot stand authority.

I guess I'm too outspoken.

God's Word refreshes our mind and God's Spirit renews our strength.

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.