Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Bebek berjalan berbondong-bondong, akan tetapi burung elang terbang sendirian.

Invest your time and add value to your life because that is the only way to greatness.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!

I want you to admit just once what you feel for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry for anything.

I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.