Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1.

The key is to remember there is a tomorrow morning. The dance will continue.

Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.