We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.

I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.

I think the embryonic digital world had the same affect on me as the openness of the old American frontier.

When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode.

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.