The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.

There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.

Customers must recognize that you stand for something.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.