The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

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.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

For any single thing of importance, there are multiple reasons.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.

Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.

I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?