The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

Science is public, not private, knowledge.

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Intelligence is power

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw.

I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.

Wild flowers grow where they will.

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.

There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.