The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

Identify the purpose of your life and destination and work out a plan to achieve your goal

And maybe a few days of freedom would be better than a lifetime spent as a slave.

Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.

Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.

We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities.