While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random.

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

Do not look for a man to learn about the purpose of your life, but look for the creator, who is your maker

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.

The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

I hope they understand that I really understand That they don't understand

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.