Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.