The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

Depression is sadness gone wrong

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

There is zero evidence for god.

Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology.

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

How may I hate that which I love with such intensity of passion? How should I abhor that for which my every drop of blood is boiling?

We need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of good relationships between allies and protect personal, confidential data.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!

My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.

I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.