Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…

...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds.

Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

…mysticism –perhaps the main aberration of the human mind.

If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!

...I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me.

Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

If I was still at Ipswich, I wouldn't be where I am today.

Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.

Easter's nearly here, now - Sing, world, sing!

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.