Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

A heart that reaches out with love can heal a soul and change a life

If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.

We lose the fear of making decisions great and small as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can if we will learn from the experience.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.