Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.

My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.

Am I a star? That's a different thing. I mean no, I'm not in People magazine. But I must be doing something right, because I've done it for 50 years! And I like doing what I do.

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them!

When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizens.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

My goal is to try to tell the public that America could use more science and technology in all aspects of its life.