It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

Once you stop learning, you start dying

I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.