The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

We know more than we can tell.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

People respect those who know how to admit their own mistakes and see their own weaknesses. If you heart is as transparent as crystal, people will respect you.

Nature is cheaper than therapy.

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

Having your goal to focus on is key, but don't let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Cajun stomp?" "You heard me, swamper. And keep your hands to yourself.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.

I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.