The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Being "Jewish" is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning our autumn to gold by the affluence of their fountain.

Scoring three away from home - you can't do better than that.

Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.