The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

You can't look dignified when you're having fun.

I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.

When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want.

The most important thing as a comic and a creator is to have a robust standpoint.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love.

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.