Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

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.

While we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers.

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

At 18 I was attracted to bad boys.

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.

I was not born to crush my own kind.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.

I think, being a male singer, I always hate another great male singer's voice before I can love it, unless it's just really far from what I do.