Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

Happy birthday, Alexander, " Magnus murmured."Thanks for remembering, " Alec whispered back.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness

I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

Conceive + Believe = Achieve.

I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.

Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.