No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

We know more than we can tell.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

If you sweep a woman off of her feet, make sure your character is strong enough to keep her in the air.

I realized then that all of the problems in my life that I thought were unsolvable were in fact solvable—except for having just jumped.

If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

The assets you want to buy are the ones people have to sell.