Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

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.

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

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.

If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.

The Democrats can't lose on their own. There always has to be some trick.

Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.

Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!