Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.

To shine is better than to reflect.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

I don't get even, I get odder.

The bigger the star, the bigger the target.

As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

I never try to get noticed. It just happens. I never try.

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song.

Man is the greatest being that ever can be.

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.