Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti it is the land of our youth.

I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

I laughed and it almost felt good. "Is that a dig at my liquor cabinet?" Cam smiled. "That wasn't liquor, it was swill. And that wasn't a cabinet, it was a drawer.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.